| Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 páginas
...and justifies our former remarks ' on the humiliations attendant on the old system of patronage.* " Seven years, my lord, have now past since I waited...pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of... | |
| 1852 - 590 páginas
...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...pushing on my work* through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 páginas
...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...pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1853 - 120 páginas
...of Lord Chesterfield, and, through him, of the listening world, that patronage should be no more ! ' Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited...pushing on my Work* through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 páginas
...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...pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication without one act of... | |
| John Forster - 1854 - 642 páginas
...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...pushing on my work through " difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have " brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one "... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 páginas
...addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ;...it ever so little. " Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward room, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1855 - 572 páginas
...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...pushing on my work* through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of... | |
| Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1856 - 370 páginas
...relying on patrons. Dr. Johnson, after a long and fruitless attendance on Lord Chesterfield, says : ' Seven years, my Lord, have now past since I waited...pushing on my work, through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could;...it ever so little. 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... | |
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