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The Life of James Watt: With Selections from His Correspondence - Page 266
by James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 424 pages
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of tlu great ; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress...
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The Book of Elegant Extracts

Book - English literature - 1868 - 168 pages
...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 amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress...
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Smaller specimens of English literature, with notes. Ed. by W. Smith

sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...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 amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress...
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Class-book of Science and Literature

Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...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 amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress...
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Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections ...

American literature - 1872 - 660 pages
...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 amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress...
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose

English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...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 amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress...
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Lectures Delivered Before the Young Men's Christian Association ..., Volume 3

Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - Christianity - 1873 - 386 pages
...sp-'vit in man, and whose inspiration giveth him understanding." Scheele, much of whose life was spent, not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow, was an acute and...
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Readings in English literature, prose

English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...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 amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress...
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The poetical and dramatic works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge [ed. by R.H ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1877 - 358 pages
...and whose minuter criticisms will be disarmed by the reflection, that these lines were conceived " not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of Academic Groves, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow." I am more anxious...
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Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great ; v academic bowers, but amid inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. It may repress...
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