...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...or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst iuconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malignant criticism...

...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...sickness and in sorrow. It may repress the triumph of malig- • nant criticism to observe, that if our language is not here fully displayed, I have only...

...meanness of dedication V Such a man, when he had finished his ' Dictionary, not/ as he says himself, ' in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow, and without the patronage of the great V was not likely to be caught by the lure thrown out by Lord...

...meanness of dedication V Such a man, when he had finished his ' Dictionary, not/ as he says himself, ' in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow, and without the patronage of the great Y was not likely to be caught by the lure thrown out by Lord...

...ambitious of any other Patron than the Public, I would inscribe this work to a Statesman,' &c. 4 ' The English Dictionary was written with little assistance...patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities,' &c. Works, \.c,\. Murphy mars that passage which Horne Tooke said he ' could never read without shedding...

...Dictionary, where he ventures to gratify the curiosity of indifferent or exacting readers by informing them " that the ' English Dictionary ' was written with little...retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." In both these passages thought touched...

...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...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and sorrow; and it may repress...

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

...and writing, of which the circumstances in which he had to work on the Dictionary were a fair image: "the English Dictionary was written with little assistance...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." Written, that...

...any of his works. And it is his work on the monumental Dictionary that has clarified this insight: "the English Dictionary was written with little assistance...obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow" (pp. 206-7)....