 Seven years, my lord, have now past, 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...  The life of Samuel Johnson - Page 115by James Boswell - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...pleasing, which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that 1 could ; and no anan is well pleased to have his all neglected, 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 I have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 pages
...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. " 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... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...pleasing which a retired and nncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that B 2 I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever...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... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...pleasing, which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. 1 had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to 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 ; during which time I have... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 pages
...all the art of pleasing, which a retired scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 154 pages
...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. 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 506 pages
...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. " Seven years, my Lord, have now passed " since I waited in your outward room, or was " repulsed from your door ; during which. " time... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 pages
...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. " 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... | |
 | 1820 - 714 pages
...those services." Again, as to PATROXAGB, what says Johnson Г " Seven years, my Lord, hare 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 394 pages
...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...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... | |
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