 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 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 academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' Works, v. pp.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 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 academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' Johnson's Works,... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 572 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... | |
 | John Jackson - Lichfield (England) - 1805 - 308 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Books - 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 - English Language - 1805 - 954 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 - English literature - 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...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 displayed,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 350 pages
...meanness of f' dedication." Such atnan when he had finished his Dictionary, " not," as he says himself, " in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under "...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 524 pages
...necessity and the excellence of obeying the voice of religion, and of morality. All the days of his existence were spent in giving ' ardour to virtue,...not the least of his merits, that he bestowed such incalculable advantages on mankind, while struggling with obstacles, which have depressed, and, for... | |
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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. 
