 ... 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 Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Seite 186von James Boswell - 1922Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 Seiten
...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. In the deep mines of science, though Frenchmen may toil. Can their strength be compared to Locke, Newton,... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1856 - 370 Seiten
...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.' " " Ah !" said Mr. Hopewell, " a man who feels that he is wrong, is always angry with somebody else.... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1857 - 516 Seiten
...of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one word of encouragement or one smile of favour....had a patron before. "The shepherd in Virgil grew acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. " Is not a patron, my lord, one who can... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 600 Seiten
...of publication, without one act of assistance,! one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. rocks. "Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 Seiten
...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. In the deep mines of science, tliouich Frenchmen may toll, Con their strength be compared u> Locke,... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - 1992 - 526 Seiten
...naturally into his mind as a weapon to express the heartlessness of which he accused his neglectful patron: "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water,... | |
 | Nell Rogers, Guy Rogers - 1996 - 70 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Norma Clarke - 2001 - 282 Seiten
...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....not expect, for I never had a Patron before . . The letter continued in tones of heavy sarcasm: Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern... | |
 | Thomas Wolfe, Maxwell Evarts Perkins - 2000 - 390 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Robert C. Leitz, Jesse S. Crisler - 2001 - 644 Seiten
...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....acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water,... | |
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