...to the end, and sometimes faint with weariness under a task, which Scaliger compares to the labours of the anvil and the mine ; that what is obvious is...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress...

...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...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academiek bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress...

...whose well-known language we adopt, could he assert, that his almost incredible labours were pursued " with little assistance of the learned, and without...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academit bowers, but innidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow*." An exile from...

...his useless, iu proportion to its vul- almost incredible labours were pur1017.] sued " with liltle assistance of the learned, and without any patronage...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of académie bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sor row"." An exile...

...meanness of dedication." Such a man, when he had finished his Dictionary, " not," as he says himself, " in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow, and without the patronage of the great," was not likely to be caught by the lure thrown out by Lord...

...uncalled into his thoughts tomorrow. In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, tet it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress...

...since it was written, as he says, " with little assistance ef the learned, and without any patrón-lijo of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement,...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...

...to the end, and sometimes faint with weariness under a task, which Scaliger compares to the labours of the anvil and the mine ; that what is obvious is...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress...

...of Lord North, the minister, than to his great merits as a lexicographer ? He says himself, that his Dictionary was written with little assistance of the...great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, nor under the shelter of " academic bowers." Were the Biographia Britannica, and the Encyclopedia in...

...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...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress...