 | Thomas Carlyle - English essays - 1869 - 486 pages
...of publication, without one act of assistance,5 one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. ' The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with...on a man struggling for life in the water, and when ho has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased 4 The EngliA... | |
 | National gallery - 1869 - 208 pages
...Dictionary. brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment...did not expect, for I never had a patron before." Boswell's Life of Johnson. Engraved by CW Sharp*. On canvas, 3 ft. 5| in. h. by 4 ft. 6£ in. w. Exhibited... | |
 | Nell Rogers, Guy Rogers - Medical - 1996 - 70 pages
...verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. "I* not a Patron, my Lord, one who look* with unconcern on a man *truggUng for life in -toe water,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1998 - 1540 pages
...have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance,1 one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment...acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.1 'Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the... | |
 | Thomas Wolfe, Maxwell Evarts Perkins - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 390 pages
...that final and irreparable loss, to agree with Samuel Johnson when he said: "The shepherd in Vergil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks." You say in one of your letters that you never knew a soul with whom you felt that you were in such... | |
 | H. J. Jackson - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 344 pages
...verse (eg, The Vanity of Human Wishes, 1:105). At the famous line in the Letter to Lord Chesterfield, "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks," he responds with vexation, "What does this mean? that Ld. Ch's heart was a Rock? — if so, to me it... | |
 | John Crowley - Fiction - 2002 - 564 pages
...brown and round, and when he asked her what they were, she said "Years." BROTHER NORTH-WIND'S SECRET The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him to be a native of the rocks. —Johnson Aer John Drinkwater's death in 1920, Violet, unable to bear... | |
 | 辜正坤 - Chinese poetry - 2003 - 580 pages
...Publication, without one Act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour'201. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a...acquainted with Love, and found him a Native of the Rocks'2". Is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the... | |
 | Timothy Wilson-Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 174 pages
...complain, and have brought it to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.1'' The letter was written on 7 February 1755, and A Dictionary of the English Language published... | |
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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 of publication without one act of assistance,... 
