 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pàgines
...addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ;...it ever so little. 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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 pàgines
...of the listening world, that Patronage should be no more! " Seven years, my Lord, have now passed, p p is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1858 - 524 pàgines
...relying on patrons. Dr. Johnson, after a long and fruitless attendance on Lord Chesterfield, says : ' Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited...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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pàgines
...addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the arts of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ;...it ever so little. 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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 pàgines
...addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ;...it ever so little. " Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward room, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 620 pàgines
...of the listening world, that Patronage should be no more! " Seven years, my Lord, have now passed, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed...pushing 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pàgines
...uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that 1 could ; and no man is well pleased to have bis been introduced, and spoken of slightingly by Goldsmith ;—JOHNSON. "Why, Sir, is useless to complain, and have brought it. at last, to the verge of publication, without one act... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 376 pàgines
...addressed your lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could;...lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward room, or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 490 pàgines
...of Lord Chesterfield, and, through him, of the listening world, that patronage should be no more ! ' Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited...door; during which time I have been pushing on my Work i through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge... | |
 | Grace Wharton, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 522 pàgines
...addressed your lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could;...pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Johnson, however, was not to be propitiated by those " honeyed words." He wrote a letter couched in... | |
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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... 
