 | Leo Braudy, Bing Professor of English Leo Braudy - 1991 - 334 páginas
...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...amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow" (pp. 206-7). Lexicographers may accuse Johnson of "linguistic authoritarianism" because... | |
 | Donald R. DeGlopper - 1995 - 316 páginas
...solving software problems. Much of the work was done (if I may echo Johnson) without patronage, and not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, which made the forbearance and assistance of my family even more necessary. The final... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 páginas
...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 amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow ... I have protracted my work till most... | |
 | Steve McCaffery - 2001 - 372 páginas
...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 inconveniences and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow" (S. Johnson 1963, 28). Johnson's pride apart,... | |
 | K. Alan Snyder - 2002 - 302 páginas
...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...amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow: and it may repress the triumph of malignant criticism to observe, that if our language is... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 páginas
...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" (SJ, 328). Such... | |
 | Timothy Wilson-Smith - 2004 - 174 páginas
...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 44 VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and... | |
 | Peter Edwards - 2006 - 371 páginas
...that it 'was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under...amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow'. I have been far more fortunate and my debts are many. This work was made possible by the... | |
 | Edward Andrew - 2006 - 297 páginas
...that it 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.' Shortly after... | |
 | Jeffrey O'Connell, Thomas E. O'Connell - 2008 - 208 páginas
...that it "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."17 Despite —... | |
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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 academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. 
