 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
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1857 - 516 σελίδες
...of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one word of encouragement or one smile of favour....had a patron before. "The shepherd in Virgil grew acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. " Is not a patron, my lord, one who can... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 σελίδες
...through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of "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
...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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 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....a patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at least acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. " Is not a patron, my lord, one who... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1858 - 524 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...did not expect, for I never had a patron before.' " "Ah!" said Mr. Hopewell, "a man who feels that he is wrong, is always angry with somebody else. Dr.... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 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." Here as so often in his writing life, Johnson was not entirely dear of the old literary arrangements,... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1990 - 244 σελίδες
...work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and brought it at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour." He clinched the matter by publishing the Dictionary without a dedication and without a reference to... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - 332 σελίδες
...February 1 754, quoted in Boswell's Life, is a classic example. His Lordship is accused of treatingJohnson 'without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour', and of delaying his patronage 'till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and... | |
 | Nell Rogers, Guy Rogers - 1996 - 70 σελίδες
...difficulties, of which it I* iistiltias 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 favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. "I* not a Patron, my Lord,... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 σελίδες
...sting unheralded by the more innocuous parallel terms that come before. Another resounding triplet ("without one Act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour") goes uncluttered by any mention of the small payment that Johnson had in fact received (a payment which,... | |
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