 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 pages
...am indifferent, and can not enjoy it; till I am solitary, and can not impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity...benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pages
...am indifferent, and can not enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and can not impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity...benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
 | John Forster - 1855 - 528 pages
...not " to confess obligations where no benefit has been received ; or to "be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to "a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself." What ! said he in more familiar mood to Garrick, have I sailed a long and difficult voyage round the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity...not to confess obligations where no benefit has been receiTed, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that '.•a patron, which... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity...benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 pages
...till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary and cannot impart it; till I am known h public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
 | 1857 - 574 pages
...until I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity...benefit has been received; or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself."... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1857 - 516 pages
...asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do lor myself. "Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...am indifferent, and can not enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and can not impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it I hope it is no very cynical asperity...benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 pages
...expressed by my friend R': Malone, in his prologue to Mr. Jepbson's tragedy of " Julia :" I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity...benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
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The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it... 
