 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...  Public Speaking for Business Men - Pàgina 166per William George Hoffman - 1923 - 300 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pàgines
...his all neglected, he it ever so little. " Seven years, my lord, have now passed sinee I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have heen pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have hrought... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 642 pàgines
...wrote to Lord Chesterfield, on appearance of the Dictionary four years before, " since I waited in your " outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door...assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile " of favour. ... Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks " with unconcern on a man struggling for life in... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 512 pàgines
...wrote to Lord Chesterfield, on appearance of the Dictionary four years before, " since I 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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1855 - 572 pàgines
...world, that Patronage should be no more! " Seven years, my Lord, have now passed, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door...last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance,-)one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 pàgines
...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,...assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour." Here as so often in his writing life, Johnson was not entirely dear of the old literary arrangements,... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1990 - 244 pàgines
...Language now belongs to the professional writers. "Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door;...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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Joan G. Nagle - 1995 - 396 pàgines
...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
...sting unheralded by the more innocuous parallel terms that come before. Another resounding triplet ("without one Act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour") goes uncluttered by any mention of the small payment that Johnson had in fact received (a... | |
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