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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the ... - Page 304
by James Boswell - 1799
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Half-hours of translation, or Extracts from the best British and American ...

Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 pages
...would suffer me to, ne m« permirent de— 9 which a retired and Such treatment I did not expect, 1 for I never had a patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with 2 Love, and found him a native of rocks. Is not a patron, my Lord, one 3 who looks on with unconcern...
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Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...have brought it. at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance ', one word of xm ^ ^ o rct {JJKJ xRtJzei { 1 never had a patron before. *' The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found...
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The Wits and Beaux of Society

Grace Wharton, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 522 pages
...have brought it, at K last, to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour :• such treatment...I did not expect, for I never had a patron before Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man who is struggling for life in the water,...
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Oliver Goldsmith, His Friends and Critics: A Lecture

James Whiteside - 1862 - 100 pages
...wrote a letter to the Earl of Chesterfield, never to be forgotten by the author, or the scholar. " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help." It is believed Lord Chesterfield...
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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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. In the deep mines of science, though Frenchmen may toil. Can their strength be compared to Locke, Newton,...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 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. In the deep mines of science, though Frenchmen may toll, Can their strength be compared to Locke, Newton,...
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Sanders' Rhetorical, Or, Union Sixth Reader: Embracing a Full Exposition of ...

Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 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. 4. Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water,...
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The Churchman's shilling magazine and family treasury, conducted ..., Volume 7

Robert Hall Baynes - 1870 - 682 pages
...at the ginger-bread fabric which impudent flattery had raised over affluent and titled imbecility. " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and wheii he has reached ground encumbers him with help ? " The whole letter, indeed, is the intellectual...
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Studies in English prose: specimens, with notes, by J. Payne

Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 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 I did not expect, for I never had a patron1 before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found mm a native of...
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Essays and Lectures: Historical and Literary

James Whiteside - 1868 - 498 pages
...Johnson wrote a letter to the Earl of Chesterfield, never to be forgotten by the author or the scholar. " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ?" It is believed Lord Chesterfield...
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