| Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 էջ
...wkhout -Reward. Among thefe unhappy Mortals is the Writer of Di&ionaries ; whom Mankind have confidered, not as the Pupil, but the Slave of Science, the Pioneer of Literature, doomed only to remove Rubbifh and clear Obftructions from the Paths of Learning and Genius, who prefs forward to Conqueft... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 էջ
...Reward. Among thefe unhappy Mortals is the Writer of Dictionaries ; whom Mankind have confidered, not zs the Pupil, but the Slave of Science, the Pioneer of Literature, doomed only to remove Rubbifh, and clear Obftructions from the Paths of Learning and Genius, who prefs forward to Conqueft... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 412 էջ
...Reward. Among .thefe unhappy Mortals is the Writer of Dictionaries; whom Mankind have confidered, not tis the Pupil, but the Slave of Science, the Pioneer of Literature, doomed only to j-cmove Rubbifh and clear Obstructions from the Paths of Learning and Genius, who prefs forward to... | |
| 1813 - 996 էջ
...deplored than that of those " pioneers of literature," whom our great lexicographer describes as " doomed only to remove rubbish, and clear obstructions,...learning and genius press forward to conquest and glory." They even still more closely resemble those unhappy rhetoricians to whom, as Juvenal assures us, the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 էջ
...wlkere success would have been without applause, and diligence without reward. Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries; whom mankind...conquest and glory, without bestowing a smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their progress. Every other author may aspire to praise ; the lexicographer... | |
| Charles James - 1805 - 1236 էջ
...the pupils, but the slaves of science, the pioneers of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish,~and clear obstructions from the paths through which learning...conquest and glory, without bestowing a smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their projress." I am so far from indulging a delusion of the kind,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 էջ
...neglect, where success would have been without applause, and diligence without reward. Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries; whom mankind...conquest and glory, without bestowing a smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their progress. Every other author may aspire to praise ; the lexicographer... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 էջ
...where success would have .been without applause, and diligence without reward. Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries ; -whom mankind...forward to conquest and glory, without bestowing a smile OB the humble drudge that facilitates their progress. Every other author may aspire to praise ; the... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 էջ
...Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries; whom mankind have considered, not asthe pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature,...conquest and glory, without bestowing a smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their progress. Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1812 - 808 էջ
...Defect, where success wonld have been without applause, and diligence without reward. Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries -, whom mankind...obstructions from the paths through which Learning and Onius press forward to conquest and glory, without bestowing a smile on the humble drudge that facilitates... | |
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