 Seven years, my Lord, have now past, 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...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 3311864Full view - About this book
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 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...acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at lust ng sky, Expan fur I never had a patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1851 - 1502 pages
...brought it at last to the verge of publication without one word of encouragement or one smile of favor. th what to sight or smell was sweet ! from thee How shall I parti and whither wander down Into acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. " Is not a patron, my lord, one who can... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. 140 RECOLLECTIONS OF the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment 1 did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The Shepherd in Virgil grew... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 590 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 1852 - 458 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 word of encouragement, or one smile of favour Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 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...assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The Shepherd in Virgil grew... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
...time I have been poshing on my work, through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without...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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 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 ?... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...whole affair with the most unjustifiable indifference, without vouchsafing to the struggling author " one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour;" how, when the gigantic undertaking was on the verge of completion, and other productions had established... | |
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