 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 366
...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...bowers, " but amidst inconvenience and distraction, 18 " in sickness and in sorrow, and without the pa" tronage of the Great," was not likely to be caught... | |
 | 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 884
...checked the flight, of less aspiring and persevering minds ; and much of his useful life was spent, " not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Scheele's first publication, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 416
...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. It may repress... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 750
...finished hie Dictionary, " not," as be says himself, " in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under tbe shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and In sorrow, and without tbe patronage of the Great," was not likely to be caught by the lure thrown out by Lord... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 476
...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. It may repress... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...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. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if our language is not here fully displayed,... | |
 | 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 576
...business ; — he may adopt the language of our great lexicographer, and say that his work was written, " not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction." The ardour of literary inquiry is not easily repressed ; and Mr.... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - عدد الصفحات: 796
...glare. Do we not sympathize with Dr. Johnson when he tells us that the English Dictionary was " written, not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sor* In the pathetic close of the narrative which Mr. Fox has given us of Argyle's death, there are... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 570
...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." Prefact to Dr. Johnson's Dictionary. — COUIITENAY. 1 See Swift's letter to Lord Oxford for the institution... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 600
...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." Preface to Dr. Johnson'' s Dictionary. — COUUTENAY. 1 See Swift's letter to Lord Oxford for the institution... | |
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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. 
