...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...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Chesterfield, on the other hand, ridiculed Johnson's deportment and manners, of which he gave a satirical...

...conclude without alluding to one very interesting circumstance, — that these Songs have not been written "in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers," but in the intervals of relaxation from employments not favourable in any way to poetic feeling. Lord Craig...

...will rise in the estimation of all who are informed that it was written, as the author declares, " with little assistance of the learned, and without...amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and sorrow." Lord Chesterfield, at that time, was universally esteemed the Mascenas of the age; and it...

...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;...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Chesterfield, on the other hand ridiculed Johnson's deportment and manners, of which he gave a satirical...

...meanness of dedication." Such a man, when he had finished his Dictionary, " not," as he says himself, '' H and without the patronage of the Great," was not likely to be caught by the lure thrown out by Lord...

...whose well-known language we adopt, could he assert, that his almost incredible labours were pursued ' with little assistance of the learned, and without...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow' — An exile from his native soil, and living in an age when the mingled storms of controversy and...

...we adopt, could he assert, that his almost incredible labours were pursued ' with little assist ance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow' — An exile from his native soil, and living in an age when the mingled storms of controversy and...

...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...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 out by Lord...

...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...

...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...