...spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns ; yet it may...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress...

...spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns ; yet it may...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress...

...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...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 are...

...little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gr ¡tify eleon' obsenritiee of retirement, or under the fhclier of academic bowers, but amid Inconvenience and distraction,...

...spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Prefact to Dr. Johnson's Dictionary. — COUIITENAY. 1 See Swift's letter to Lord Oxford for the institution...

...spared out of tenderness to the author, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Preface to Dr. Johnson'' s Dictionary. — COUUTENAY. 1 See Swift's letter to Lord Oxford for the institution...

...informed the world in his preface, that " the English Dictionary was written with little assistance from the learned, and without any patronage of the great...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...

...will rise in the estimation of all who are informed that it was written, as the author declares, " with little assistance of the learned, and without...amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and sorrow." Lord Chesterfield, at that time, was universally esteemed the Mascenas of the age; and it...

...informed the world in his preface, that " the English Dictionary was written with little assistance from the learned, and without any patronage of the great;...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...

...meanness of dedication." Such a man, when he had finished his Dictionary, " not," as he says himself, '' H and without the patronage of the Great," was not likely to be caught by the lure thrown out by Lord...