 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...  Annual Register - Page 402edited by - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 pages
...in public, I had exhausted all ie art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can pos!ss. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to .ve his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pages
...exhausted nil the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly Hcholur can posse*.*. I had done alt that 1 could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, IK; it ever so little. •| Seven yi-ars, my lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms,... | |
 | Grace Wharton, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 522 pages
...me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar...pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Johnson, however, was not to be propitiated by those " honeyed words." He wrote a letter couched in... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1863 - 400 pages
...public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess ; 12 I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.13 Seven years, my Lord, have now passed u since 15 I waited in your outward rooms,16 or 17... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 pages
...billow In happy freedom, pleased to feel the air, And wander in the luxury of light. NEGLECT. Sorrow of I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Letter to Lord Chesterfield.— Dr. SAMUEL JOHNSON. NEST. Description of a Thrush's Within a thick... | |
 | 1864 - 808 pages
...which came heavily on him, and did him a good deal of damage. " 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 probing on my work through dillk-ulties, of which it is useless to complain, and brought it at last... | |
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