 | Religion - 1813 - 996 pages
...those " pioneers of literature," whom our great lexicographer describes as " doomed only to remove rubbish, and clear obstructions, from the paths through...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 - English Language - 1805 - 954 pages
...considered, not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish and clear obstructions from the paths through,...the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, aad even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few. I have, notwithstanding this discouragement,... | |
 | Charles James - English language - 1805 - 1236 pages
...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...smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their projress." I am so far from indulging a delusion of the kind, that although I should be proud of being... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...considered, not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish and clear obstructions from the paths through...only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompence has been yet granted t» very few. I have, notwithstanding this discouragement, attempted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...considered, -not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish and clear obstructions from the paths through...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 pages
...considered, not asthe pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish and clear obstructions from the paths through...aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope toescape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few. . I have, notwithstanding... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1812 - 808 pages
...doomed only to remove rubbish and clear obstructions from the paths through which Learning and Onius press forward to conquest and glory, without bestowing...facilitates their progress. Every other author may aspir* to praise ; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 514 pages
...considered, not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish and clear obstructions from the paths through...which Learning and Genius press forward to conquest find glory, without bestowing a smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their progress. Every other... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 492 pages
...considered, not as the pupil, but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish and clear obstructions from the paths through...which Learning and Genius press forward to conquest find glory, without bestowing a smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their progress. Every other... | |
 | Charles Frederick Bennett - English poetry - 1817 - 174 pages
...the 'pioneer of literature, doomed only to re" move rubbish and clear obstructions from the " path, through which learning and genius press " forward to conquest and glory, without bestow" ing a smile on the humble drudge that facili" tates their progress." This being the state of... | |
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... rubbish and clear obstructions from the paths through which learning and genius press forward to conquest and glory, without bestowing a smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their progress. Every other author may aspire to praise ; the lexicographer... 
