 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 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... | |
 | George Newenham Wright, Charles Henry Timperley - Engraving - 1845 - 258 pages
...during the compilation of his work — invented that beautiful piece of mechanism, called the mule, "with little assistance of the learned, and without...retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." The parallel is rendered more striking,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 624 pages
...had f MV AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND finished hb Dictionary, " not," as he sayg himself, " in the soil obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of...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... | |
 | 1850 - 790 pages
...time, he observed were far from encouraging: "with little assistance of the learned, and without auy patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Though the Dictionary brought him £1,575, his expenses exceeded what the booksellers had agreed to... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1851 - 192 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 represthe triumph of malignant... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded ; Strike amongst them, gentlemen, for sweet mercies'...blow : When they wheeled and turned, as many more bower!, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph... | |
 | George Higby Throop - 1851 - 250 pages
...of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to...written with little assistance of the learned, and wilh'out any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, nor under the shade... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 594 pages
...the faults of that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the Etiylith Dictionary was written with little assistance of the...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 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...inform it. that the English Dictionary was written with h'ttle assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 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...soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter rf academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress... | |
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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... 
