 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.  The works of Samuel Johnson - Page 74by Samuel Johnson - 1824Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1752 - 674 pages
....at Ь ft vioLte it, by the confe/fion of terrors which I do not feil. Having laboured to mjintain the dignity of virtue, I will not now degrade it by the mcanncfs of dedication. The fceming vanity with which I have fometimes fpoken of myfelf, would perhaps... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 422 pages
...propagation of truth, I will not at laft violate it by the confeffion of terrors which I do not feel : having laboured to maintain the dignity of virtue, I will not now degrade it by the meannefs of dedication. The feeming vanity with which I have fometimes fpoken of myfelf, would perhaps... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 416 pages
...propagation of truth, I will not at laft violate it by the confeffion of terrors which I do not feel : having laboured to maintain the dignity of virtue, I will not now degrade k by the meannefs of dedication. The feeming vanity with which I have fometimes fpoken of myfelf, would... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 652 pages
...fend out two cock'* boats to tow me into harbour ?" He had Hud, in the laft number of the Rambler, ** that, having laboured to maintain the dignity ** of virtue, I will not now degrade it by the " meaunefs of dedication." Such a man, when he he had finifhed his " Di&ionary, not," as he fays himfelf,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...propagation of truth, I will not at laft violate it by the confeffion of terrors which I do not feel : having laboured to maintain the dignity of virtue, I will not now degrade it by the meannefs of dedication. The feeming vanity with which I have fometimes fpoken of myfelf, would perhaps... | |
 | Joseph Towers - France - 1796 - 464 pages
...obligation to any favourer of learning, I ihall < not <&f dedication: for he fays, in his laft Rambler, ** Having laboured to maintain •'* the dignity of virtue, I will not now *' degrade it by the meannefs of dedi** cation." His Di£tionary was a work of great labour, and great merit, and has not... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...propagation of truth, I will not at last violate it by the confession of terrors which I do not feel ; having laboured to maintain the dignity of virtue,...not now degrade it by the meanness of dedication.' himself Aetat.45.] Lord Chesterfield? s fiattery. 299 himself with the Sage, conscious, as it should... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...propagation of truth. I will not at last violate it by the confession of terrors which I do not feel ; having laboured to maintain the dignity of virtue,...not now degrade it by the meanness of dedication.' himself with the Sage, conscious, as it should seem, of the cold indifference with which he had treated... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 422 pages
...fend out two cockboats " to tow me into harbour r" He had faid, in the laft number of the Rambler, " that, •" having laboured to maintain the dignity *.* of virtue, I will not now degrade it by the ** meannefs of dedication." Such a man, when he had finifhed his Dictionary, "not,'' as he fays himfelf,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 416 pages
...fend out two cockboats " to tow me into harbour ?" He had faid, in the laft number of the Rambler, " that, '' having laboured to maintain the dignity '' of virtue, I will not now degrade it by the " meannefs of dedication." Such a man, when when he had finifhed his Dictionary, "not,'* as he fays... | |
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