 | Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...public, I had exhausted all the arts of pleasing, which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. 1 had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased...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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing, which a retired scholar can possess. I had done all that I could;...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1816 - 154 pages
...had once 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 506 pages
...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 "...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... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...epistle ran in the following satrastic strain : •" Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waiied in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficullies of which it is useless to complain, and have brought... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 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...neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years, my Lord, hare now past, since I waited in your out» ward rooms, or was repulsed from your door : during which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 368 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 room, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1820 - 714 pages
...those services." Again, as to PATROXAGB, what says Johnson Г " Seven years, my Lord, hare 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...sayinç, wifli a smile, " No, .Sir ; I have hurt the dog too much already ;" or words to that purpose. uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no in. ni is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years, my Lord, have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 388 pages
...had once 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...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... | |
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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... 
