 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 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...soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter rf academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to ..-form 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 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... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - Inventors - 1859 - 652 pages
...I beg to state, in " the words of the great master of the English tongue, that " ' it was written, not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or " ' under the shelter of academick bowers ; but amidst incon" ' venience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' About... | |
 | Robert Anderson - College readers - 696 pages
...of 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... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 384 pages
...circumstances in which he had to work on the Dictionary were a fair image: "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." Written, that... | |
 | Leo Braudy, Bing Professor of English Leo Braudy - History - 1991 - 334 pages
...his work on the monumental Dictionary that has clarified this insight: "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" (pp. 206-7).... | |
 | Geoffrey Macnab - Performing Arts - 1993 - 324 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. (Preface to... | |
 | Donald R. DeGlopper - Social Science - 1995 - 316 pages
...solving software problems. Much of the work was done (if I may echo Johnson) without patronage, and not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, which made the forbearance and assistance of my family even more necessary. The final version of the... | |
 | Steve McCaffery - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 372 pages
...elicits pride in the poverty and insularity of the book's production. "[T]he English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconveniences and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow" (S. Johnson... | |
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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. 
