 | 1831 - 652 pages
...patrons, by that bread which is the bitterest of all food, by those stairs which are the most toilsome of all paths, by that deferred hope which makes the heart sick. Through all these things the ill-dressed, coarse, ungainly pedant had struggled manfully up to eminence... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Bible - 1840 - 644 pages
...patrons, by that bread which is the bitterest of all food, by those stairs which are the most toilsome of all paths, by that deferred hope which makes the heart sick. Through all these things the ill-dressed, coarse, ungainly pedant had struggled manfully, up to eminence... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...patrons, by that bread which is the bitterest of all food, by those stairs which are the most toilsome of all paths, by that deferred hope which makes the heart sick. Through all these things the ill-dressed, coarse, ungainly pedant had struggled manfully up to eminence... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...patrons, by that bread which is the bitterest of all food, by those stairs which are the most toilsome of all paths, by that deferred hope which makes the heart sick. Through all these things the ill-dressed, coarse, ungainly pedant had struggled manfully up to eminence... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...patrons, by that bread which is the bitterest of all food, by those stairs which are the most toilsome of all paths, by that deferred hope which makes the heart sick. Through all these things the ill-dressed, coarse, ungainly pedant had struggled manfully up to eminence... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...patrons, by that bread which is the bitterest of all food, by those stairs which are the most toilsome of all paths, by that deferred hope •which makes the heart sick. Through all these things the illdressed, coarse, ungainly pedant had struggled manfully up to * The... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 574 pages
...patrons, by that bread which is the bitterest of all food, by those stairs which are the most toilsome of all paths, by that deferred hope which makes the heart sick. Through all these things, the ill-dressed, coarse, ungainly pedant had struggled up manfully to eminence... | |
 | Art - 1858 - 618 pages
...booksellers, by that bread which is the bitterest of all food, by those stairs which are the most toilsome of all paths, by that deferred hope which makes the heart sick." Howknows, or cares, the American reader whether the living English poetess may not be stimulated to... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...patrons, by that bread which is the bitterest of all food, by those stairs which are the most toilsome of all paths, by that deferred hope which makes the heart sick. Through all these things the ill-dressed, coarse, ungainly pedant had struggled manfully up to eminence... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1859 - 768 pages
...patrons, by that bread which is the bitterest of all foo-i, by those stairs which are the most toilsome of all paths, by that deferred hope which makes the heart sick. Through all these things the ill-dressed, coarse, ungainly pedant had struggled manfully up to eminence... | |
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... tried by the bitterest calamities; by the want of meat, of fire, and of clothes; by the importunity of creditors, by the insolence of booksellers, by the derision of fools, by the insincerity of patrons, by that bread which is the bitterest of all... 
