 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired...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... | |
 | Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 pages
...billow In happy freedom, pleased to feel the air, And wander in the luxury of light. NEGLECT. Sorrow of I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Letter to Lord Chesterfield.— Dr. SAMUEL JOHNSON. NEST. Description of a Thrush's Within a thick... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...dark wig which scarcely covered his head, and his clothes hanging loose about him. — Boswell, 79. No MAN is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever BO little. — Johnson, 86. A FLY may sting a stately horse, and make him wince ; but one is but au... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired...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... | |
 | Gems - 1866 - 168 pages
...nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired...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... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1867 - 574 pages
...nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired...lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward room, or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 pages
...not modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing, which a retired...possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleiscd to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. 8. Seven years, my lord, have now passed since... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1868 - 550 pages
...once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired anil uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that...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... | |
 | Thomas Crampton - 1868 - 136 pages
...nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired...done all that I could, and no man is well pleased to Lave his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I lad done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.... | |
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I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could, and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. 
