 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 620 pages
...had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all Ule art of pleasing, which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is wefl pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so tittle. "Seven years, my Lord, have now passed... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - Canadian wit and humor - 1843 - 330 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1843 - 594 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...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... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 724 pages
...entertain, Sir, a very strong prejudice against relying on patrons. 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 lo complain, and have brought... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 648 pages
...entertain. Sir, a very si mug prejudice against relying on patrons. Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which lime I hove been pushing on my work, through difficulties of winch it is useless to complain, and have... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar eau $ passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can poseen». t passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...had once 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...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... | |
 | People - 1845 - 346 pages
...acknowledgment, this epistle ran in the following sarcastic strain : " 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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 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 lime I have been pushing on my work* through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and... | |
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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... 
