 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned,...soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter rf academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to ..-form it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned,...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 - 1859 - 780 pages
...faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it. that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned,...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... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 652 pages
...I beg to state, in " the words of the great master of the English tongue, that " ' it was written, not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or " ' under the shelter of academick bowers ; but amidst incon" ' venience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' About... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 pages
...faults of that which it condemns^yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned,...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... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 pages
...circumstances in which he had to work on the Dictionary were a fair image: "the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned,...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 - 1991 - 334 pages
...it is his work on the monumental Dictionary that has clarified this insight: "the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned,...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow" (pp. 206-7).... | |
 | Donald R. DeGlopper - 1995 - 316 pages
...solving software problems. Much of the work was done (if I may echo Johnson) without patronage, and not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, which made the forbearance and assistance of my family even more necessary. The final version of the... | |
 | Steve McCaffery - 2001 - 372 pages
...author elicits pride in the poverty and insularity of the book's production. "[T]he English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned,...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconveniences and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow" (S. Johnson... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 pages
...in the Preface to the Dictionary: "it may gratify curiosity to inform it that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned,...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow" (SJ, 328). Such a spectacle of heroic solitariness as Johnson momentarily exemplifies and also imagines... | |
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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. 
