 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
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 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,... | |
 | People - 1845 - 346 pages
...some expressions of general acknowledgment, this epistle ran in the following sarcastic strain : " 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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 pages
...of Lord Chesterfield, and, through him, of the listening world, that Patronage should be no more! " Seven years, my Lord, have now passed, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which lime I have been pushing on my work* through difficulties,... | |
 | James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 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 - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 pages
...pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that 1 could ; and no man lochs of fresh past, since I watted in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 374 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 1 waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 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,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, bo it ever so little. 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,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. 140 RECOLLECTIONS OF the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all 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... | |
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