 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...  Works - Page 52by Samuel Johnson - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 520 pages
...pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...pleasing which a retired and nncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that B 2 I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have... | |
 | Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...pleasing, which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. 1 had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1816 - 154 pages
...pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess — I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever...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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...all the art of pleasing, which a retired scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years, my Lord, hare now past, since I waited in your out» ward rooms, or was repulsed from your door : during which... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...or words to that purpose. uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no in. ni is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door: during which time I have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 394 pages
...pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...pleasing which n retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication , without one act of assistance,4... | |
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