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" 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 been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge... "
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides - Page 38
by James Boswell - 1848 - 874 pages
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The life and adventures of Oliver Goldsmith

John Forster - 1848 - 744 pages
...he wrote to Lord Chesterfield, on appearance of the Dictionary four years before, ' since I waited in your outward rooms, or was ' repulsed from your...one ' word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. ... Is ' not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on ' a man struggling for life in the...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door;...smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1851 - 336 pages
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The English Language in Its Elements and Forms: With a History of Its Origin ...

William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...be 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...it at last to the verge of publication without one word of encouragement or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron...
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Cyclopedia of English Literature: a Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...he it ever so little. Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward room», teer aright, but the black lust to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People, Volume 1

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 pages
...have his all neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door...smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The Shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found...
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The Modern British Essayists: Carlyle, Thomas. Critical and miscellaneous essays

1852 - 590 pages
...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;...one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. "Is...
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Sketches of English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Present Century

Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pages
...humiliations attendant on the old system of patronage.* " Seven years, my lord, have now past since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door,...one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and...
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Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 588 pages
...have his all neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years, iny Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door...assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The Shepherd in Virgil grew...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 568 pages
...passed, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have0" been pushing on my work* through difficulties, of...last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance/)one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last...
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