...that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the " English Dictionary" was written with little assistance of the learned, and...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress...

...the minister, than to his great merits as a lexicographer ? He says himself, that his Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and...great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, nor under the shelter of " academic bowers." Were the Biographia Britannica, and the Encyclopedia in...

...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...bowers, " but amidst inconvenience and distraction, 18 " in sickness and in sorrow, and without the pa" tronage of the Great," was not likely to be caught...

...checked the flight, of less aspiring and persevering minds ; and much of his useful life was spent, " not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Scheele's first publication, which...

...that which it condemns; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform It, that the " English Dictionary" was written with little assistance of the learned, and...amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if our language is not...

...that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress...

...friends, and very often with no assistance whatever. Johnson himself declares, that his Dictionary " was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great;" and yet it is believed, by his countrymen at least, to excel a similar production of " the embodied...

...business ; — he may adopt the language of our great lexicographer, and say that his work was written, " not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction." The ardour of literary inquiry is not easily repressed ; and Mr....

...glare. Do we not sympathize with Dr. Johnson when he tells us that the English Dictionary was " written, not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under...amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sor* In the pathetic close of the narrative which Mr. Fox has given us of Argyle's death, there...

...that which it condemns, yet it may gr ¡tify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was + obsenritiee of retirement, or under the fhclier of academic bowers, but amid Inconvenience and distraction,...