| John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...publication, without one act of assistance, one ' word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. ... Is ' not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern...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... | |
| John Forster - 1848 - 1294 pages
...publication, without one act of assistance, one ' word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. ... Is ' not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern...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... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not л rns me — I govern not it. He was one evening sitting and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 pages
...and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment...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... | |
| 1852 - 590 pages
...Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. "Is not a patron, 015* Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling...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... | |
| Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pages
...verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern...cannot enjoy it, till I am solitary and cannot impart itf , till I am known and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations... | |
| Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 568 pages
...on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help I The notice which you have been pleased to take of...am solitary and cannot impart it; till I am known and do not want it. I hope, it is no very cynical asperit}^, not to confess obligations, where no benefit... | |
| 1861 - 490 pages
...live long to enjoy his late-won affluence. He could indeed say with greater truth than Johnson — " It has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot...enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it." He never recovered the death of his beloved son. The loss of Reynolds, occurring about the same time,... | |
| 1852 - 302 pages
...talents, had it been early, bad been kind , but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and can pot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it" There are half-way enemies, too,—creatures who keep the grudge, and show it under... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1853 - 120 pages
...of favour. * The English Dictionary. t Were time and printer's space of no value, it were easy to ' The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with...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... | |
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