 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
 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 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... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 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,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 988 pages
...work in the world, of November 22, 1754, and which has outlived much of the literature of that day. " Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited...repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushiu'i on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at... | |
 | American literature - 1872 - 660 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...little. Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waitec" in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing... | |
 | Robert Anderson - College readers - 696 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 passed s^ijce \ waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have b$en... | |
 | United States. Internal Revenue Service - Commercial correspondence - 1975 - 124 pages
...Johnson wrote with bitterness to the Earl of Chesterfield: "I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little." When someone writes you a letter of particular charm or ready understanding, do not shy away from writing... | |
 | Bill Moore - Cooking - 1987 - 180 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. At about the same time, Edward Taylor, living in the bleakness of the New World, used language with... | |
 | Nell Rogers, Guy Rogers - Medical - 1996 - 70 pages
...and we quote from Upton Sinclair's "Cry for Justice", page 774: "Seven yean, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward room*, or was repulsed from your door; during which tune I have been pushing my work through difficulties, of which it I* iistiltias to complain, and have... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 396 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... | |
 | David J. Hansen - Psychology - 2000 - 308 pages
...deserves. For example, in 1754, Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote in a letter to Lord Chesterfield: "No man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little." Thirty years ago, Maslow (1968) called attention to the importance of satisfying a person's basic needs... | |
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