 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 652 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 - Biography - 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... | |
 | 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 - 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 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... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 436 pages
...fhcker of academic bowers, but amidft in" convenience and diftraction, 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 difappointment,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...said, in the last number of the Rambler, " that having laboured to maintain the dignity of virtue, I will not now degrade it by the meanness of dedication."...patronage of the great," was not likely to be caught hy the lure thrown out by Lord Chesterfield. He had In vain sought the patronage of that nobleman ;... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 524 pages
...happiness and peace. And how, and where, did he perform these benefits to his fellow-creatures ? ' Not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' " It, surely, is not the least of his merits, that he bestowed such incalculable advantages on mankind,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 528 pages
...happiness and peace. And how, and where, did he perform these benefits to his fellow-creatures ? ' Not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' • | " It, surely, is not the least of his merits, that he bestowed such incaleulable advantages on... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1810 - 532 pages
...happiness and peace. And how, and when', did he perform these benefits to his fellow-creatures ? ' Not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' " It, surely, is not the least of his merits, that he bestowed such incaleulable advantages on mankind,... | |
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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. 
