 | 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...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... | |
 | 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
...which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it that the ' English Dictionary" was written 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. 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,"... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written ubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth...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... | |
 | James Davis Knowles - 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 - 1845 - 404 pages
...which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written 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. 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 to be done,... | |
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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. 
