 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 136 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... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 512 pages
...laboured to maintain the dignity of virtue, I will not now degrade it by the meanness of dedication V Such a man, when he had finished his ' Dictionary,...in sorrow, and without the patronage of the great V was not likely to be caught by the lure thrown out by Lord Chesterfield. He had in vain sought the... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 pages
...laboured to maintain the dignity of virtue, I will not now degrade it by the meanness of dedication V Such a man, when he had finished his ' Dictionary,...in sorrow, and without the patronage of the great Y was not likely to be caught by the lure thrown out by Lord Chesterfield. He had in vain sought the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1901 - 206 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."...or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconveniences and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow, and without the patronage of the great,"... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Thompson, Thomas Budd Shaw - 1901 - 862 pages
...'tZnary?' 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. ... I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 146 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 Lloyd - 1907 - 324 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." Boswell, remarking upon Johnson's confession, says, "Let the preface be attentively perused, in which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...the world is little 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 5 observe, that if our language is not here fully... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1910 - 776 pages
...Dictionary" was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not o th sorrow.J It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if our language is not... | |
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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. 
