 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1911 - 140 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: and it may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if our language is not here fully... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 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... | |
 | Frederick Monroe Tisdel - English literature - 1913 - 398 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... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - Recitations - 1914 - 372 pages
...was written with little assistance of the learned, 25 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 30 here fully... | |
 | Alfred Turner - English literature - 1916 - 276 pages
...Johnson says, in a passage both grand and impressive in the stately march of its English : — " Not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the...in sorrow, and without the patronage of the Great." Johnson's wound was not to be salved over by gold or flattery. He did not go to Chesterfield in the... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - English language - 1922 - 138 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 ; and it may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if our language is not here fully... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - Fiction - 1922 - 256 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; and it may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if our language is not here fully... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - English prose literature - 1923 - 290 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 ; and it may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if our language is not here fully... | |
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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. 
