 ... 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 Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 186by James Boswell - 1922Full view - About this book
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 pages
...to complain, 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....acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. " Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pages
...of publication, without one act of assistance.^ 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 not a patron, 015* Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 pages
...verge of publication without one act of assistance,3 one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a...acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
...without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment 1 did not expect, for I never had a patron before. "...acquainted with love, and found him a native of the rocks. . " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the... | |
 | 1853 - 706 pages
...in his celebrated Letter to Lord Chesterfield, says, in reference to the hollowness of patronage : " The shepherd, in Virgil, grew at last acquainted with Love ; and found him a native of the rocks." To what passage in Virgil does Johnson here refer, and what is the point intended to be conveyed... | |
 | 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 Love, and found him a native of the rocks. ' Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pages
...verge of puhlication without one act of assistanee,0 one word of eneouragement, or one smile: of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron hefore. " The shepherd in ' Virgil' grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pages
...verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a...acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. " Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the... | |
 | John Forster - 1855 - 528 pages
...of the trade wind, hard to move. ' ' The shepherd in Virgil, " wrote Johnson to Lord Chesterfield, "grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a "native of the rocks." Nor had adverse circumstances been without their effect upon the literary character itself.... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1856 - 370 pages
...verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.'" " Ah !" said Mr. Hopewell, " a man who feels that he is wrong, is always angry with somebody else.... | |
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