 | 1856 - 864 σελίδες
...whole affair with the most uujuslitiable 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... | |
 | Cornelius Van Santvoord - 1856 - 470 σελίδες
...with the adverse elements, " to the verge of publication," " without," as he tells Chesterfield, " one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor." He had commanded success, and moved thenceforward a monarch in the world of letters. Webster,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 σελίδες
...pushing on my work* through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last Ā / ]ΐ۹ r zg& ׆Z0qk T U̻# R...9?V Ι li h H ! ] ' uv=: Ŭ -ߊ1]e ,mƪF$ n "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. "Is... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 σελίδες
...pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless lo complain, and have brought it, at kst, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. In the deep mines of science,... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1858 - 524 σελίδες
...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 assistance,...one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.' " "Ah!" said Mr. Hopewell, "a man... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 σελίδες
...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 assistance,...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... | |
 | Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - 1858 - 362 σελίδες
...through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge 7 of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect,8 for I never had a patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 620 σελίδες
...on my work* through, difficulties, of which it is nseless 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. "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. "Is... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 376 σελίδες
...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 assistance,...one word of encouragement, 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 σελίδες
...on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it. at last, markable to find such an attachment to a chief, though...he had then no connection with the island, and had Such treatment I did not expect, for 1 never had a patron before. *' The shepherd in Virgil grew at... | |
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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... 
