 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained...fade away into the forest dim : Fade far away, di amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the Knglish Dictionary was of whom the one Was more robust and hardy to the view ; But he amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant... | |
 | James Davis Knowles - Baptists - 1844 - 426 pages
...might be alleged, in the melancholy words of the great English lexicographer, that it was written, " not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers; but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Mrs. Judson returned to Massachusetts... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 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... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 838 pages
...poverty and despondency ,— not, as he tells us, " in the soft obscurities of rctirement, and amid the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." He laboured, as other dictionary-makers have laboured, because ho felt that the work was... | |
 | George Newenham Wright, Charles Henry Timperley - Engraving - 1845 - 258 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 - 1846 - 624 pages
...had f MV AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND finished hb Dictionary, " not," as he sayg himself, " in the soil obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of...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... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 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... | |
 | Daniel Appleton White - Electronic books - 1847 - 120 pages
...of his countrymen who have deserved well of letters, he has been obliged to prosecute his studies, ' not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers,' but amidst the inconveniences and distractions of public life, and the fatigues of his honorable profession. He... | |
 | 1850 - 790 pages
...time, he observed were far from encouraging: "with little assistance of the learned, and without auy patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities...amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Though the Dictionary brought him £1,575, his expenses exceeded what the booksellers had... | |
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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. 
