 | George Lillie Craik - 1851 - 192 ページ
...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...retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may represthe triumph of malignant... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 ページ
...that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was ; Three hundred bannered knight«, it was a gallant...blow : When they wheeled and turned, as many more bower!, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph... | |
 | George Higby Throop - 1851 - 250 ページ
...inform it that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and wilh'out any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, nor under the shade of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 ページ
...that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the Etiylith Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and...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... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 ページ
...it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the EnglM IHetiuunry was written with little assistanee of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft ohscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic howers, hut amid ineonvenienee and distraction... | |
 | 1854 - 706 ページ
...the learned, and without the 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 in sorrow), instead of affording matter for envy or malignancy to prey upon, it must excite wonder... | |
 | 1854 - 768 ページ
...the learned, and without the 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 in sorrow), instead of affording matter for envy or malignancy to prey upon, it must excite wonder... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 ページ
...condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it. that the English Dictionary was written with h'ttle assistance of the learned, and without any patronage...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic howers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph... | |
 | George Williamson (of Greenock.), Watt Club (Greenock, Scotland) - 1856 - 346 ページ
...records, I beg to state, in the words of the great master of the English tongue, that ' it was written not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers ; but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.' " In such... | |
 | 1857 - 574 ページ
...undertaking, it is indeed astonishing that it was finished so soon, since it was written, as he remarked, with little assistance of the learned, and without...amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." His memorable letter to Lord Chesterfield, to whom the prospectus of the Dictionary was... | |
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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. 
