 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...  Catalogue - Harvard University - Page 226by Harvard University - 1873Full view - About this book
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
...pleased to have his all neglected, be 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 poshing on my work, through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 588 pages
...well-pleased to have his all neglected, he it ever so little. " Seven years, my lord, have now passed sinee I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have heen pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have hrought... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...whole affair with the most unjustifiable indifference, without vouchsafing to the struggling author " one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour;" how, when the gigantic undertaking was on the verge of completion, and other productions had... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 642 pages
...past," he wrote to Lord Chesterfield, on appearance of the Dictionary four years before, " since I waited in your " outward rooms, or was repulsed from...assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile " of favour. ... Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks " with unconcern on a man struggling for life in... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 512 pages
...past," he wrote to Lord Chesterfield, on appearance of the Dictionary four years before, " since I waited in your " outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during " which time 1 have been pushing on my work through " difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 384 pages
...dependent on the patron or the social system he represented: "Seven years, my Lord, have now past, 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, of which it is useless to complain, and have... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 244 pages
...represents. Language now belongs to the professional writers. "Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from...difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and brought it at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement,... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 332 pages
...February 1 754, quoted in Boswell's Life, is a classic example. His Lordship is accused of treatingJohnson 'without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour', and of delaying his patronage 'till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary,... | |
 | Tim Fulford - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 274 pages
...effrontery to claim credit when the Dictionary appeared: Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from...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... | |
 | Nell Rogers, Guy Rogers - Medical - 1996 - 70 pages
...door; during which tune I have been pushing my work through difficulties, of which it I* iistiltias to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the...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... | |
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