 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 oldal
...pushing on my work through difficulties. of which it is useless 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. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The Shepherd in Virgil grew acquainted... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 oldal
...my. work through tiifficulties, of which it is useless 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. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 oldal
...pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless 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. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The Shepherd in Virgil grew at... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 416 oldal
...difficulties in his way, from various causes, were such as would have deterred a less determined mari ; but, sensible of the value of his intended •work,...one smile " of favour." It is comprised in 7 vols. Svo. Mr. Maurice has never had any ecclesiastical preferment ; but it appears, by one of his publications,... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 oldal
...on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless 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. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 oldal
...perhaps, have been more dignified to have passed the offence over in silence. He professes to have brought his work to the verge of publication, " without one act of assistance;" but he confessed to Mr Langton, " that he did once receive from Lord Chesterfield the sum of ten pounds... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 oldal
...pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless 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. Such treatment I did not expect — for I never had a Patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 154 oldal
...pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless 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. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. 'The Shepherd in Virgil, grew at... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 oldal
...pushing on my work through difficullies of which it is useless 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. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " Is not a patron, my lord, one who... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 oldal
...pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless 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. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The Shepherd in Virgil grew acquainted... | |
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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... 
