... 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 Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Página 186por James Boswell - 1922Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, that he should like to be buried in a certain spot...least a memorial for those who survive. For some, rocks. Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
...to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, rt я native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling... | |
| William Jesse - 1844 - 422 páginas
...in going, to exist amphibiously, like an Undine, between raging billows and desolate rocks ; and yet the shepherd in Virgil grew, at last, acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. But you would laugh clandestinely at me in your bustled sleeve ; for there is nothing more ridiculous... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 páginas
...to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour....I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. 21 The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is... | |
| People - 1845 - 346 páginas
...brought it at 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 I never had a patron before." " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for his life in the water,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 páginas
...of publication, without one act of assistance,-)one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. " Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the... | |
| James Boswell - 1846 - 602 páginas
...complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance2, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour....acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks 3. 1 [No very moderate expectation for " a retired and nnconrtly scholar!" — ED.] 1 The following... | |
| James Boswell - 1848 - 374 páginas
...complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance^), one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour....I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. precise and probable ground for Johnson's animosity than Boswell gives, by hinting that Johnson expected... | |
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