 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 810 pages
...aftonifhing that it was finifhed fo foon, fmce it was written, as he fays, " with little affiftauce of the learned, and without any patronage of the great...fhelter of academic bowers, but amidft inconvenience and diftrattion, in ficknefs and in forrow." The forrow to which he here alludes, is probably that which... | |
 | 1816 - 764 pages
...altonilhing that it was finished fo foon, flnce it was written, as he fays, " with little alliilance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the foft obfcuritics of retirement, or tinder the Shelter of academic bowers, but amidll inconvenience and distraction,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 492 pages
...may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English 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 academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 514 pages
...may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English 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 academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience... | |
 | 1818 - 896 pages
...useless, iu proportion to its vul- almost incredible labours were pur1017.] sued " with liltle assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of académie bowers, but amidst inconvenience... | |
 | 1818 - 904 pages
...we adopt, could he assert, that his almost incredible labours were pursued " 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 academit bowers, but innidst inconvenience... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 450 pages
...may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 pages
...may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English 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 academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 402 pages
...merits as a lexicographer ? He says himself, that his Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, nor under the shelter of " academic bowers." "Were the Biographia Britannica,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English 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 academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience... | |
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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. 
