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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... "
Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson - Page 68
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 94 pages
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The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ...

Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...retired and uncourtly scholar fan 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, are now past, since I waited in your outer rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time...
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The Poetical Works ...: With the Life of the Author

Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 pages
...retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. 1 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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 328 pages
...uncourtly scholar can possess — . I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to hear his all neglected, be it ever so little Seven years, my Lord, have now passed, since 1 waited in your outward room,' or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have...
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Characteristic Anecdotes of Men of Learning and Genius: Natives of Great ...

John Watkins - 1808 - 568 pages
...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. "...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 brought...
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Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...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. •...which time I have been pushing on my. work through tiifficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it,' at last, to the verge. of...
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Works, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that 1 could ; and no anan 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 room, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have...
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Rasselas: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 pages
...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...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With Critical Observations on His Works

Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. 1 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...
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The British Nepos; or, Youth's mirror: lives of illustrious Britons

William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...epistle ran in the following satrastic strain : •" Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waiied in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door;...which time I have been pushing on my work through difficullies of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 506 pages
...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 room, or was " repulsed from your door ; during which. " time...
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