 | James Boswell - 1799 - عدد الصفحات: 648
...Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' Johnson's Works,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - عدد الصفحات: 640
...Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' Works, v. pp.... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 572
...number and nature of the works9 which he published. These, it should be remembered, were written, " not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but"r at intervals snatched from his daily avocations, and amidst a variety of embarrassments, sufficient... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - عدد الصفحات: 322
...written, as he says, " with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. " The sorrow to which he here alludes is probably that which he felt for the loss of his wife, who... | |
 | John Jackson - 1805 - عدد الصفحات: 308
...written, as he says, " with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." The sorrow to which he here alludes; is, probably, that which he felt for the loss of his wife, who... | |
 | 1805 - عدد الصفحات: 984
...number and nature of the works which he published. These, it should be remembered, were written, ' not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but* at intervals snatched from his daily avocations, and amidst a variety of embarrassments, sufficient... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - عدد الصفحات: 954
...Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic k bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - عدد الصفحات: 376
...Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if our language is not here fully displayed,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - عدد الصفحات: 350
...meanness of f' dedication." Such atnan when he had finished his Dictionary, " not," as he says himself, " in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under "...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness '.' and in sorrow, and without the patronage of *' the Great," was not likely to be caught by the lure thrown out by Lord... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...meanness of dedication." Such a man when he had finished his Dictionary, " not," as he says himself, " in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow, and without the patronage of the great," was not likely to be caught hy the lure thrown out by Lord... | |
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Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. 
