 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 724 pages
...pushing on my work, through difficulties of which it is useless lo complain, and have brought it at laal 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.' • • • OUR friend who... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, English part,' Had been better far than dying Of a grieved and broken heart. Unrepining The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...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...I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. 21 The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is... | |
 | People - 1845 - 346 pages
...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...publication, without one act of assistance, one word of cnocuragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before."... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 pages
...was repulsed from your door; during which lime I have been pushing on my work* through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought...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... | |
 | James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 pages
...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...last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance2, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1846 - 580 pages
...referring to the passage which speaks very incorrectly of his having received from Lord Chesterfield " not one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour." (I., 237.) It seems almost as incorrect to say, that he had never received one smile of favour ; for... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 374 pages
...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...I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. precise and probable ground for Johnson's animosity than Boswell gives, by hinting that Johnson expected... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 pages
...was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, an honour." He was this afternoon full of critical...sides. He said, Hammond's "Love Elegies" were poor 1 never had a patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquaintcd with Lovct and found... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...' 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...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... | |
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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... 
