 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, LL.D. - Strana 56podľa Samuel Johnson - 1806Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | 1839 - Počet stránok 656
...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 distraction ; in ticknes» and sorrow." Original. DAME HANS; OK, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A NOTABLE HOUSEWIFE. ВТ MRS.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - Počet stránok 334
...maintain the dignity of virtue, I will not now degrade it by the meanness of dedication." Such a man, when he had finished his Dictionary, " not," as he...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,"... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - Počet stránok 1078
...Dictionary was written with little assistance from 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." Chesterfield, on the other hand, ridiculed Johnson's deportment and manners, of which he gave a satirical... | |
 | 1841 - Počet stránok 588
...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 amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant... | |
 | George Newenham Wright - 1841 - Počet stránok 212
...called the mule, " 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 amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." The parallel is rendered more striking,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - Počet stránok 620
...maintain the dignity of virtue, I will not now degrade it by the meanness of dedication." Such a man, when he had finished his Dictionary, " not," as he says himself, " in the soli obscurities of retirement, or under the ehclttTtf academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience arc*... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - Počet stránok 624
...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 - Počet stránok 738
...Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not e the world unseen, And with thee 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 - Počet stránok 426
...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... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - Počet stránok 838
...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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