 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 of Samuel Johnson - Pàgina 216per James Boswell - 1880Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pàgines
...well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed...last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for... | |
 | People - 1845 - 346 pàgines
...acknowledgment, this epistle ran in the following sarcastic strain : " Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed...last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of cnocuragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 pàgines
...of the listening 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; during which lime I have been pushing on my work* through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pàgines
...could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years, my lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward...last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance2, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pàgines
...have now past,' he wrote to Lord Chesterfield, on appearance of the Dictionary four years before, ' since I waited in your outward rooms, or was ' repulsed...to the ' verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one ' word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. ... Is ' not a patron, my Lord, one... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pàgines
...have now past,' he wrote to Lord Chesterfield, on appearance of the Dictionary four years before, ' since I waited in your outward rooms, or was ' repulsed...to the ' verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one ' word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. ... Is ' not a patron, my Lord, one... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 744 pàgines
...have now past,' he wrote to Lord Chesterfield, on appearance of the Dictionary four years before, ' since I waited in your outward rooms, or was ' repulsed...to the ' verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one ' word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. ... Is ' not a patron, my Lord, one... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pàgines
...pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years, my lord, have now past, since 1 waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from...last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance^), one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pàgines
...have his all neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years, my lord, have now past, since I watted the brother of one of his correspondents to burn his...and dealt about his censures on all sides. He said, assistance ' , one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pàgines
...well pleased to have his all neglected, bo it ever so little. Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed...last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for... | |
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