 | 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...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."... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...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 past, since I waited...last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance2, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...have now past,' he wrote to Lord Chesterfield, on appearance of the Dictionary four years before, ' since I waited in your outward rooms, or was ' repulsed...of assistance, one ' word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. ... Is ' not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on ' a man struggling... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 744 pages
...have now past,' he wrote to Lord Chesterfield, on appearance of the Dictionary four years before, ' since I waited in your outward rooms, or was ' repulsed...of assistance, one ' word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. ... Is ' not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on ' a man struggling... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...have now past,' he wrote to Lord Chesterfield, on appearance of the Dictionary four years before, ' since I waited in your outward rooms, or was ' repulsed...of assistance, one ' word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. ... Is ' not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on ' a man struggling... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pages
...pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years, my lord, have now past, since 1 waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...have his all neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years, my lord, have now past, since I watted in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door;...of assistance ' , one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for 1 never had a patron before. " The shepherd in... | |
 | 1907 - 560 pages
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 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...well pleased to have his all neglected, bo it ever so little. Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed...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. The shepherd in... | |
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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... 
