 | 1881 - 884 pages
...of a poet ; he was " doomed at last to wake a lexicographer ! ' He wrote having " 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 and... | |
 | 1881 - 578 pages
...may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the " English Dictionary" was written with little assistance soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and... | |
 | Cyril Church - 1883 - 854 pages
...tells us in his preface, " to know 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... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 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 nor under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 400 pages
...it 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... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pages
...may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the " English Dictionary" was written with little assistance and spreads out every flower; Annual for me, the grape, the rose re soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1891 - 286 pages
...it 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1891 - 72 pages
...it 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... | |
 | 1891 - 590 pages
...to tears, has told how the Dictionary of the English Language 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1891 - 228 pages
...it 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 howers, but amidst inconvenience and... | |
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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. 
