 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 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 had done all I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. the verge of... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1873 - 814 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 room, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 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...pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. 4 Seven year«, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 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... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 480 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... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 pages
...me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the arts of pleasing, which a retired and uncourtly scholar...it ever so little. " Seven years, my Lord, have now passed s^ijce \ waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I... | |
 | United States. Internal Revenue Service - 1975 - 124 pages
...recognize and compliment them. Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote with bitterness to the Earl of Chesterfield: "I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased...to have his all neglected, be it ever so little." When someone writes you a letter of particular charm or ready understanding, do not shy away from writing... | |
 | Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 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...pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. At about the same time, Edward Taylor, living in the bleakness of the New World, used language with... | |
 | Beatrice Gottlieb - 1994 - 350 pages
...was one of an artist's occupations, as Samuel Johnson's famous letter to Lord Chesterfield reminds us ("Seven years, my Lord, have now past since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door"7). Life in a royal household was especially public — something that will come as no surprise... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1993 - 638 pages
...the famous letter to Lord Chesterfield: "When I had once addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess" (Boswell, Life of Johnson, 184-85). Carlyle observes, "What soul-subduing magic, for the very clown... | |
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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. 
