 | 1837 - 352 pages
...the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, nor under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience, and distraction ; in sickness and sorrow." 39. Men resemble the gods in nothing so much, as in doing good lo their fellow creatures.... | |
 | John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 258 pages
...the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, nor under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction; in sickness and sorrow." DCCLXXII. Modern Honour.—The only ti1ing of weight that can be said against modern honour... | |
 | 1839 - 656 pages
...the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscuritie» of retirement, nor under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction ; in ticknes» and sorrow." Original. DAME HANS; OK, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A NOTABLE HOUSEWIFE. ВТ MRS.... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...Dictionary was written with little assistance from the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Chesterfield, on the other hand, ridiculed Johnson's deportment and manners, of which he gave a satirical... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 pages
...meanness of dedication." Such a man, when he had finished his Dictionary, " not," as he says himself, " in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow, and without the patronage of the great,"... | |
 | George Newenham Wright - 1841 - 212 pages
...called the mule, " 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 amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." The parallel is rendered more striking,... | |
 | 1841 - 588 pages
...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 amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 pages
...meanness of dedication." Such a man, when he had finished hie Dictionary, " not," as he says himeelf, " in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amulet inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow, and without the patronage of the Great,"... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim : Fade far away, di amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant... | |
 | James Davis Knowles - Baptists - 1844 - 426 pages
...might be alleged, in the melancholy words of the great English lexicographer, that it was written, " not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers; but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Mrs. Judson returned to Massachusetts... | |
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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. 
