 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. 1 had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased...; during which time I have been pushing on my work thrc.ugh difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought is at last to the verge... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le rainquieur du ruin. guieur de la terre, that I mighl obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending...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,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...public, I had exhausted all the arts of pleasing, which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. 1 had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1816 - 154 pages
...pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired...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,... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1820 - 714 pages
...strenirtheu those services." Again, as to PATROXAGB, what says Johnson Г " Seven years, my Lord, hare now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or...difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the «туе of publication, without one act of ::sistancc, one word of... | |
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing, which a retired...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,... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 524 pages
...contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would allow me to continue it. When I had once addressed your...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,... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...my attendance so little encouraged, till neither pride nor modesty would allow me to continue it Who I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had...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 wri of encouragement,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...ti>a •hallow artifice did not succeed. t " THB WORLD" wa» a periodical paper published in London. scholar can possess. I had done all that I could,...or was repulsed from your door : during which time 1 have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired...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,... | |
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I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the... 
