 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pages
...spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify...retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant... | |
 | 1881 - 884 pages
...preface, " the dreams of a poet ; he was " doomed at last to wake a lexicographer ! ' He wrote having " little assistance of the learned, and without any...obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Yes. His "... | |
 | Cyril Church - 1883 - 854 pages
...of labour these must have been ! " It may gratify curiosity," he tells us in his preface, " to know that the ' English Dictionary ' was written with little...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... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 pages
...of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the fanlts of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity...the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement nor under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 400 pages
...spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns ; yet it may...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... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1884 - 164 pages
...spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify...English Dictionary was written with little assistance from the learned, and without any patronage from the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 598 pages
...spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns ; yet it may...curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was may His melancholy at its meridian. [AD 1755. may have been affected for the moment, certain it is... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1891 - 228 pages
...spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitons to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns; yet it may gratify...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic howers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph... | |
 | 1891 - 590 pages
...Johnson, in language that has moved men to tears, has told how the Dictionary of the English Language was written " with little assistance of the learned,...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Gibbon in his stately prose has recounted the progress of his History, from the day when he " sat musing... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1891 - 72 pages
...spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns; yet it may gratify...was written with little assistance of the learned, aud without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter... | |
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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... 
