 Seven years, my Lord, have now past, 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...  Lives of Milton and Addison - Σελίδα 199των Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 209 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | James Boswell - 1998 - 1540 σελίδες
...complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance,1 one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour....acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.1 'Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the... | |
 | Norma Clarke - 2001 - 282 σελίδες
...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...not expect, for I never had a Patron before . . The letter continued in tones of heavy sarcasm: Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern... | |
 | Thomas Wolfe, Maxwell Evarts Perkins - 2000 - 390 σελίδες
...that final and irreparable loss, to agree with Samuel Johnson when he said: "The shepherd in Vergil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks." You say in one of your letters that you never knew a soul with whom you felt that you were in such... | |
 | H. J. Jackson - 2001 - 344 σελίδες
...verse (eg, The Vanity of Human Wishes, 1:105). At the famous line in the Letter to Lord Chesterfield, "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks," he responds with vexation, "What does this mean? that Ld. Ch's heart was a Rock? — if so, to me it... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 σελίδες
...all, came from the booksellers. What piqued the lexicographer was Chesterfield's failure to provide 'one Act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour'. Hence the barbed put-down: The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him... | |
 | John Crowley - 2002 - 564 σελίδες
...brown and round, and when he asked her what they were, she said "Years." BROTHER NORTH-WIND'S SECRET The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him to be a native of the rocks. —Johnson Aer John Drinkwater's death in 1920, Violet, unable to bear... | |
 | 辜正坤 - 2003 - 580 σελίδες
...difficulties, of which it is useless to complain'19', 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'201. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. The Shepherd in Virgil... | |
 | Timothy Wilson-Smith - 2004 - 174 σελίδες
...work, through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word...treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.1'' The letter was written on 7 February 1755, and A Dictionary of the English Language published... | |
 | Richard B. Sher - 2008 - 842 σελίδες
...was struggling to complete his work and badly in need of support, his supposed patron never provided "one act of assistance, one word of encouragement,...I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before" (BLJ, 1:261—62). Some pages later Boswell prints a letter from Johnson to Charles Burney of 8 April... | |
 | David Mikics - 2008 - 364 σελίδες
...amorous and sociable. Samuel Johnson gracefully outlines this naive aspect of pastoral when he remarks, "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks." For later poets, too, the pastoral realm appeared simple and blessedly ordinary, in contrast to the... | |
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