 | English poetry - 1812 - 1092 pages
...learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or uader the shelter of academic bowers ; but amidst inconvenience and distraction in sickness and sorrow." The intervals of this compilation were sufficient to allow of various literary avocations.... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 680 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, \. pp.... | |
 | Samuel Miller - Art, Modern - 1803 - 530 pages
...that it 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 must be regarded as a wonderful monument of philological taste, erudition, and labour. The English... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 572 pages
...number and nature of the works' i 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 - 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... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 596 pages
...number and nature of the works 9 which he published. These, it should be remembered, were written, " not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic GILBERT WAKEFIELD. 311 bowers, but"* at intervals snatched from his daily avocations, and amidst a... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
