 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...  The life of Samuel Johnson - Page 115by James Boswell - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1855 - 572 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - Canadian fiction - 1856 - 370 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be 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 pages
...of the listening world, that Patronage should be no more! " Seven years, my Lord, have now passed, p p pushing on my work* through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1858 - 524 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - French language - 1858 - 362 pages
...done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.5 Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited...outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which6 time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be 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 - English language - 1858 - 424 pages
...pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be 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... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1858 - 638 pages
...well-pleased to hftve his all neglected, be 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 hare been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought... | |
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