 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 270 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...or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst iuconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 202 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...sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malig- • nant criticism to observe, that if our language is not here fully displayed, I have only... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - Authors, English - 1897 - 512 pages
...ambitious of any other Patron than the Public, I would inscribe this work to a Statesman,' &c. 4 ' The English Dictionary was written with little assistance...patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities,' &c. Works, \.c,\. Murphy mars that passage which Horne Tooke said he ' could never read without shedding... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 pages
...meanness of dedication V 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 Y was not likely to be caught by the lure thrown out by Lord... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - Authors, English - 1897 - 512 pages
...meanness of dedication V 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 V was not likely to be caught by the lure thrown out by Lord... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - English literature - 1899 - 1076 pages
...Dictionary, where he ventures to gratify the curiosity of indifferent or exacting readers by informing them " that the ' English Dictionary ' was written with little...retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." In both these passages thought touched... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - English literature - 1989 - 490 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...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and sorrow; and it may repress... | |
 | W. F. Bolton - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1966 - 244 pages
...spared out of tenderness to the authour, 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... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 384 pages
...and writing, of which the circumstances in which he had to work on the Dictionary were a fair image: "the English Dictionary was written with little assistance...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Written, that... | |
 | Leo Braudy, Bing Professor of English Leo Braudy - History - 1991 - 334 pages
...any of his works. And it is his work on the monumental Dictionary that has clarified this insight: "the English Dictionary was written with little assistance...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow" (pp. 206-7).... | |
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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... 
