 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
 | Robert Chambers - 1851
...through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at lust to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word...smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, fur I never had a patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 659 σελίδες
...brought it at last to the verge of publication without one word of encouragement or one smile of favor. th what to sight or smell was sweet ! from thee How shall I parti and whither wander down Into acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. " Is not a patron, my lord, one who can... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 558 σελίδες
...is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. 140 RECOLLECTIONS OF the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment 1 did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The Shepherd in Virgil grew... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 404 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 of encouragement, or one smile of favour Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and... | |
 | 1852
...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. "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. "Is... | |
 | 1853
...in his celebrated Letter to Lord Chesterfield, says, in reference to the hollowness of patronage : " The shepherd, in Virgil, grew at last acquainted with Love ; and found him a native of the rocks." To what passage in Virgil does Johnson here refer, and what is the point intended to be conveyed ?... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 647 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...encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment 1 did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853
...whole affair with the most unjustifiable 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... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853
...verge of puhlication without one act of assistanee,0 one word of eneouragement, or one smile: of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron hefore. " The shepherd in ' Virgil' grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 776 σελίδες
...now send out two cock boaU to tow me Into harbor T" 2 The conqueror of the conqueror of the world. 55 The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. la not a patron, mv lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and,... | |
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