 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 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."...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow, and without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 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."...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow, and without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 750 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1831 - 570 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." Prefact to Dr. Johnson's Dictionary. — COUIITENAY. 1 See Swift's letter to Lord Oxford for the institution... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 600 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." Preface to Dr. Johnson'' s Dictionary. — COUUTENAY. 1 See Swift's letter to Lord Oxford for the institution... | |
 | 1833 - 310 pages
...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... | |
 | 1834 - 440 pages
...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... | |
 | 1834 - 426 pages
...author declares, " with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the...amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and sorrow." Lord Chesterfield, at that time, was universally esteemed the Mascenas of the age; and it... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 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 died... | |
 | Théodore de Bèze - 1836 - 352 pages
...labours were pursued ' 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' — An exile from his native soil, and living in an age when the mingled storms of controversy and... | |
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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. 
