 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 sidor
...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...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,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 470 sidor
...referring to the passage which speaks very incorrectly of his having received from Lord Chesterfield " not one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour." (I., 237.) It seems almost as incorrect to say, that he had never received one smile of favour ; for... | |
 | 1856 - 864 sidor
...whole affair with the most uujuslitiable 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 established... | |
 | Cornelius Van Santvoord - 1856 - 470 sidor
...with the adverse elements, " to the verge of publication," " without," as he tells Chesterfield, " one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor." He had commanded success, and moved thenceforward a monarch in the world of letters. Webster,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 sidor
...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...one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. "Is... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1857 - 516 sidor
...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... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 sidor
...waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have b$en pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless...complain, and have brought it at last, to the verge of pvibiication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 sidor
...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...one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour." Here as so often in his writing life, Johnson was not entirely dear of the old literary arrangements,... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1990 - 244 sidor
...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 brought it at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement,... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - 332 sidor
...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, and... | |
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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... 
