 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...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...amidst 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 528 pages
...happiness and peace. And how, and where, did he perform these benefits to his fellow-creatures ? ' Not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under...amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' • | " It, surely, is not the least of his merits, that he bestowed such incaleulable... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1810 - 532 pages
...happiness and peace. And how, and when', did he perform these benefits to his fellow-creatures ? ' Not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under...amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' " It, surely, is not the least of his merits, that he bestowed such incaleulable advantages... | |
 | 1811 - 418 pages
...under which he wrote that work: " With little assistance of the learned, and wit/tout any fiatronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement^...amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." With the recollection of so many embarrassments, pressing themselves upon the mind, we... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1812 - 808 pages
...that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress... | |
 | Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...that which it condemns), yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, * and...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... | |
 | 1822 - 440 pages
...passing over him. His labour* for the information and improvement of others, " have not been carried on in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the...amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." The Editor presumes he shall be readily believed when he declares, that he considers his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 492 pages
...that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and...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 - English literature - 1816 - 514 pages
...that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress... | |
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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. 
