 | Gems - English poetry - 1866 - 168 pages
...address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Lc rainqucur dn vainqncur dc la tcrrc; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...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,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 pages
...done all that I could; and no man is well pleiscd to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. 8. Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited...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,... | |
 | William Francis Collier - English literature - 1868 - 550 pages
...once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired anil uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that...difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brougU it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement,... | |
 | Thomas Crampton - 1868 - 136 pages
...and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could, and no man is well pleased to Lave his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years,...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,... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - English poetry - 1869 - 306 pages
...receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visiteel your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of...your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door i during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1869 - 572 pages
...neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lord.jship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing...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,... | |
 | English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 pages
...pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When once I had 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,... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...pride nor modesty would suffer mo to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in publie, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired...waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your doors ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless... | |
 | Louis Le Brun, Henri van Laun - 1869 - 290 pages
...done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.3 Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited...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 Seton - Letter writing - 1870 - 280 pages
...CHESTERFIELD. February 'Jth, 1755. MY LORD,—I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of the World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended...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... 
