| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 588 страници
...exhausted all the 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 so little. " Seven years, iny Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during... | |
| Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 568 страници
...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 time I have0" been pushing on my work* through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1852 - 446 страници
...proprietors of the Illustrated News have projected."— Jtritattnia. " Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door."— Johnson's Letter to Lord Chesterfield. 6 NATIONAL ILLUSTRATED LIBRARY* BOSWELL'S LIFE OF DK. JOHNSON.... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 страници
...exhausted all the art of pleasing, which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that 1 could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all...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... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 страници
...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... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 страници
...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 since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have... | |
| John Forster - 1854 - 512 страници
...have " now 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... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 страници
...exhausted all the art of 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...it ever so little. " Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward room, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 332 страници
...exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that 1 could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all...it ever so little. " Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward room, or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 страници
...exhausted all the art of 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...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... | |
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