 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...  Kottabos: College Miscellany - Page 401873Full view - About this book
 | English essays - 1852 - 590 pages
...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...one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. "Is... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...it ever so little. " Seven years, iny Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I...assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The Shepherd in Virgil grew... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - English essays - 1852 - 568 pages
...passed, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have0" been pushing on my work* through difficulties, of...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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1853 - 120 pages
...should be no more ! ' Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I...last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance,t one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. * The English Dictionary. t Were time... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 384 pages
...have now past, 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,...one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour." Here as so often in his writing life, Johnson was not entirely dear of the old literary arrangements,... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 244 pages
...professional writers. "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...difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and brought it at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement,... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 332 pages
...February 1 754, quoted in Boswell's Life, is a classic example. His Lordship is accused of treatingJohnson 'without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour', and of delaying his patronage 'till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and... | |
 | Joan G. Nagle - Technology & Engineering - 1995 - 396 pages
...now passed since l waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time 1 have been pushing on my work through difficulties...publication without one act of assistance, one word or encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment l did not expect, for l never had a patron... | |
 | Nell Rogers, Guy Rogers - Medical - 1996 - 70 pages
...door; during which tune I have been pushing my work through difficulties, of which it I* iistiltias to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the...assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. "I* not a Patron, my Lord,... | |
 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages
...sting unheralded by the more innocuous parallel terms that come before. Another resounding triplet ("without one Act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour") goes uncluttered by any mention of the small payment that Johnson had in fact received (a payment which,... | |
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