...Dictionary was written with little assistance from the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under...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...

...conclude without alluding to one very interesting circumstance, — that these Songs have not been written "in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers," but in the intervals of relaxation from employments not favourable in any way to poetic feeling. Lord Craig...

...Dictionary was written with little assistance from the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under...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...

...the author declares, " 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 sorrow." Lord Chesterfield, at that time, was universally esteemed the Mascenas of the age; and it...

...labours were pursued ' with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow' — An exile from his native soil, and living in an age when the mingled storms of controversy and...

...written, as he says, " with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." The sorrow to which he here alludes is probably that which he felt for the loss of his wife, who died...

...written, as he says, " with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." The sorrow to which he here alludes is probably that which he felt for the loss of his wife, who died...

...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 the...inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow, and without the patronage of the Great," was not likely to be caught by the lure thrown out by Lord...

...the learned, and without any 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 sorrow." 39. Men resemble the gods in nothing so much, as in doing good lo their fellow creatures....