 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.  The works of Samuel Johnson - Page 56by Samuel Johnson - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 654 pages
...fbelter of academic ** bowers, but amidft inconvenience and dif4* traction, in {icknefs and in forrow, and ** without the patronage of the great," was not...likely to be caught by the lure thrown out by Lord Chefterfield. He had in vain fought the patronage of that nobleman ; and his pride, exafpe rated by... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 416 pages
...fhelter of acade'' mic bowers, but amidft inconvenience and " diftra6tion, in ficknefs and in forrovv, and " without the patronage of the great," was not...likely to be caught by the lure thrown out by lord Chefterfield. He had in vaia fought the patronage of that nobleman ; and his pride, exafperated by... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 422 pages
...fhelter of acade" mic bowers, but amidft inconvenience and " diffraction, in ficknefs and in forrow, and ** without the patronage of the great," was not...likely to be caught by the lure thrown out by lord Chefterfield. He had in vain fought the patronage of that nobleman ; and his pride, exafperated by... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 568 pages
...number and nature of the works9 which he published. These, it should be remembered, were written, " not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but"r at intervals snatched from his daily avocations, and amidst a variety of embarrassments, sufficient... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 570 pages
...number and nature of the works'" which he published. These, it should be remembered, were written, " not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic i Some remarks on his " Character as a man of letters," by the Rev. E. Cogan, were communicated by... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...written, as he says, " with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. " The sorrow to which he here alludes is probably that which he felt for the loss of his wife, who... | |
 | John Jackson - 1805 - 310 pages
...written, as he says, " with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." The sorrow to which he here alludes; is, probably, that which he felt for the loss of his wife, who... | |
 | 1805 - 984 pages
...number and nature of the works which he published. These, it should be remembered, were written, ' not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but* at intervals snatched from his daily avocations, and amidst a variety of embarrassments, sufficient... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 972 pages
...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 k bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...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...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if our language is not here fully... | |
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