 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...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', one word of the following title : — The celebrated Letter from Samuel Johnson, LL.D.. to Philip Dormer Stanhope,... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...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', one word of the following title: — The celebrated Letter from Samuel Johnson, LL.D., to Philip Dormer Stanhope,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...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*,...one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. * The following note is fubjoined... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...pushing on my work thrc.ugh difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought is at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance,...one word of 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 350 pages
...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...one word of encouragement, or one smile of " favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for (' I never had a patron before. " The Shepherd in Virgil grew... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 328 pages
...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, one word of encouragement, qr one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. The Shepherd... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...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,* one word of 1754. encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatJE^ ment I did not expect, for I never had a... | |
 | John Watkins - Authors, English - 1808 - 568 pages
...pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought i: at last 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, fur I uever had a patrou before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 520 pages
...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,...one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...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,...one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at... | |
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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... 
