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 verge... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 3231864Full view - About this book
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...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 verge of publication, without one act of assistance', one word of the following title : — The celebrated Letter from Samuel Johnson, LL.D.. to Philip Dormer Stanhope,... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...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 verge of publication, without one act of assistance', one word of the following title: — The celebrated Letter from Samuel Johnson, LL.D., to Philip Dormer Stanhope,... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...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 verge of publication, without one act of assistance,8 one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...been pushing on my work thrc.ugh difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought is at last to the verge of publication, without one act...encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment 1 did not expect, for I never had a patron before. ' The Shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 328 pages
...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 verge of publication, without...one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, qr one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. The Shepherd... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...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 verge of publication, without one act of assistance,* one word of 1754. encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatJE^ ment I did not expect, for I never had a... | |
| John Watkins - Authors, English - 1808 - 768 pages
...time 1 have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without...word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such Such treatment I did not expect, for I never bad a patron before. • " The shepherd in Virgil grew... | |
| David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 416 pages
...continued his labours, and, almost, in the words of Dr. Johnson to Lord Chesterfield, brought his work to " the " verge of publication, without " one act...word " of encouragement, or one smile " of favour." It is comprised in 7 vols. Svo. Mr. Maurice has never had any ecclesiastical preferment ; but it appears,... | |
| David Erskine Baker - Dramatists, English - 1812 - 426 pages
...continued his labours, and, almost, in the words of Dr Johnson to Lord Chesterfield, brought his work to " the " verge of publication, without '•' one...word " of encouragement, or one smile " of favour." It is comprised in 7 vols. 8vo. Mr. Maurice has never had any ecclesiastical preferment ; but it appears,... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...time I have been pashing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance,J one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for... | |
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