 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 136 σελίδες
...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 academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 362 σελίδες
...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 amid inconvenience and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1904 - 136 σελίδες
...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 academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience... | |
 | 1896 - 728 σελίδες
...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 obscurity of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, • hut amidst inconvenience... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1881 - 918 σελίδες
...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 retiiement or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | W. F. Bolton - 1966 - 244 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 σελίδες
...work on the Dictionary were a fair image: "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... | |
 | Leo Braudy, Bing Professor of English Leo Braudy - 1991 - 334 σελίδες
...Dictionary that has clarified this insight: "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. 
