 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 750 pages
...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 of publication, without one art of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Johnson - Literary Collections - 1825 - 508 pages
...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 f verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1825 - 518 pages
...encouragement did Lord Chesterfield give to Dr. Johnson ? He suffered him to conclude his Herculean work " without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour;" and when the mighty task was ended, he published two contemptible papers in favour of it, as baits... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 524 pages
...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...I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. ' The Shepherd, in Virgil, grew at last acquainted with love, and found him a native of the rocks.... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...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...of publication, without one act of assistance, one wri of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 pages
...was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difliculties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought...last, to the verge of publication^ without one act of assistance0, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1827 - 622 pages
...was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my workthrough difficulties, , and destroys the spirit of liberty. JOHNSON: "Sir,...not give half a guinea to live under one form of nr one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect for I never had a Patron before. "I he shepherd... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 pages
...last, to the verge of publication, without one act ot assistance,-!- one word of encouragement, nr one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a uatkc of the rocks. " Is... | |
 | Joseph Hervey Hull - English language - 1828 - 84 pages
...was repulsed from your door; during which time I hav.e been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought...act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one unite of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. "The shepherd in... | |
 | Samuel Felton - Gardeners - 1830 - 270 pages
...subdued, by its glowing and eloquent preface, which informs us that this great work was composed <f without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour." I am sorry to say, that Mr. Mason, even in the above Essay, discovers, in three instances, his animosity... | |
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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... 
