 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1843 - 304 pages
...to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smib of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before." " Ah !" said Mr. Hopewell, " a man who feels that he is wrong, is always angry with somebody else.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of À$ я native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling... | |
 | William Jesse - Dandies - 1844 - 422 pages
...in going, to exist amphibiously, like an Undine, between raging billows and desolate rocks ; and yet the shepherd in Virgil grew, at last, acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. But you would laugh clandestinely at me in your bustled sleeve ; for there is nothing more ridiculous... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment...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
...brought it at last to the verge of 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." " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for his life in the water,... | |
 | James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 pages
...have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance2, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment...acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks 3. 1 [No very moderate expectation for " a retired and nnconrtly scholar!" — ED.] 1 The following... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 374 pages
...have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance^), one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment...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... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...prospect of the trade wind, hard to move. ' The 'shepherd in Virgil,' said Johnson to Lord Chesterfield, ' grew at last acquainted with love, and found him a native ' of the rocks.' Nor had adverse circumstances been without their effect upon the literary character itself. Covered... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1848 - 798 pages
...prospect of the trade-wind hard to move. ' The shepherd in Virgil,' said Johnson to Lord Chesterfield, ' grew at last acquainted with love, and found him a native of the rocks." Nor had adverse circumstances been without their effect upon the literary character itself. Covered... | |
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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 of publication without one act of assistance,... 
