 | George Lillie Craik - 1851 - 192 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 represthe triumph of malignant... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was ; Three hundred bannered knight«, it was a gallant...blow : When they wheeled and turned, as many more bower!, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph... | |
 | George Higby Throop - 1851 - 250 pages
...inform it that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and wilh'out any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, nor under the shade of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 594 pages
...that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the Etiylith 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... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 588 pages
...it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the EnglM IHetiuunry was written with little assistanee of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft ohscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic howers, hut amid ineonvenienee and distraction... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 706 pages
...the learned, and without the 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 in sorrow), instead of affording matter for envy or malignancy to prey upon, it must excite wonder... | |
 | 1854 - 768 pages
...the learned, and without the 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 in sorrow), instead of affording matter for envy or malignancy to prey upon, it must excite wonder... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it. that the English Dictionary was written with h'ttle assistance of the learned, and without any patronage...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic howers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 574 pages
...undertaking, it is indeed astonishing that it was finished so soon, since it was written, as he remarked, with little assistance of the learned, and without...amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." His memorable letter to Lord Chesterfield, to whom the prospectus of the Dictionary was... | |
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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. 
