 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers,...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' Works, \. pp. 49-51. Thomas Warton wrote to his brother : — ' I fear his preface will disgust by... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers,...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' Works, v. pp. 49-51. Thomas Warton wrote to his brother : — ' I fear his preface will disgust by... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers,...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph ol malignant criticism to observe, that if our Ianjuage is not here fully... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers,...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if our Ianguage is not here fully... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 514 pages
...little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers,...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of .nalignant criticism to observe, that if our language is not here fully... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 492 pages
...little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers,...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 pages
...little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers,...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 416 pages
...little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers,...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 pages
...little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers,...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... | |
 | George Williamson (of Greenock.), Watt Club (Greenock, Scotland) - 1856 - 344 pages
...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...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' " In such sorrow, it was not the least bitter ingredient, perhaps, that he was unable by his presence... | |
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... the English 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 academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness... 
