 Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge...  The life and adventures of Oliver Goldsmith - Pàgina 188per John Forster - 1848 - 704 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pàgines
...whole affair with the most unjustifiable indifference, without vouchsafing to the struggling author " one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour;" how, when the gigantic undertaking was on the verge of completion, and other productions had established... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 pàgines
...parties; something equivalent to this was necessary to justify the statement in an offensive form, " I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door." The suspicion that pecuniary assistance was expected is greatly strengthened by the complaint that... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 pàgines
...dependent on the patron or the social system he represented: "Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which lime I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1990 - 244 pàgines
...represents. Language now belongs to the professional writers. "Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed...difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and brought it at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement,... | |
 | Beatrice Gottlieb - 1994 - 350 pàgines
...Samuel Johnson's famous letter to Lord Chesterfield reminds us ("Seven years, my Lord, have now past since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door"7). Life in a royal household was especially public — something that will come as no surprise... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - 332 pàgines
...February 1 754, quoted in Boswell's Life, is a classic example. His Lordship is accused of treatingJohnson 'without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour', and of delaying his patronage 'till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and... | |
 | Tim Fulford - 1996 - 274 pàgines
...have the effrontery to claim credit when the Dictionary appeared: Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed...one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last... | |
 | Nell Rogers, Guy Rogers - 1996 - 70 pàgines
...door; during which tune I have been pushing my work through difficulties, of which it I* iistiltias to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the...assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. "I* not a Patron, my Lord,... | |
 | Joan G. Nagle - 1995 - 396 pàgines
...pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. ... Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since l waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time 1 have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pàgines
...entertained Colley Cibber, and it is not known whether his complaint that "seven years . . . have now past since I waited in your outward Rooms or was repulsed from your Door" is literally true. What matters is the way in which these words tacitly align Johnson's case with ancient... | |
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