 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 pages
...undertaking, it is indeed astonishing that it was finished so sooti, since it was written, as he says, " with little assistance of the learned, and without...amidst 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 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 by the lure thrown... | |
 | 1837 - 352 pages
...gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with very little assistance from the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, nor under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience, and distraction ; in sickness and... | |
 | John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 258 pages
...gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with very little assistance from the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, nor under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction; in sickness and... | |
 | 1839 - 656 pages
...curiosity to inform ' it, that the English Dictionary was written with very { little assistance from the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscuritie» of retirement, nor under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...informed the world in his preface, that " the English Dictionary was written with little assistance from the learned, and without any patronage of the great...amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Chesterfield, on the other hand, ridiculed Johnson's deportment and manners, of which he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 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 shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow, and without the patronage of the great,"... | |
 | 1841 - 588 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...retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant... | |
 | George Newenham Wright - 1841 - 212 pages
...during the compilation of his work, invented that beautiful piece of mechanism, called the mule, " with little assistance of the learned, and without...retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." The parallel is rendered more striking,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 pages
...meanness of dedication." Such a man, when he had finished hie Dictionary, " not," as he says himeelf, " in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amulet inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow, and without the patronage of the Great,"... | |
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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. 
