 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 652 pages
...delayed till I am indifferent, " and cannot enjoy it; till I am folitary, and ** cannot impart it; till I am known, and do " not want it. I hope it is no very cynical afpe" rity not to confefs obligations where no be" nefit has been received ; or to be unwilling " that... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1796 - 464 pages
...been delayed till I am indifferent, * and cannot enjoy it; till I am folitary, and cannot * impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. ' I hope it is no very cynical afperity, not to confels ' obligations where no benefit has been received, or ' to be unwilling that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it'; till I am known, letter carelessly, as the rest of his note shews. Johnson says, that during the seven... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it 1 ; till I am known, letter carelessly, as the rest of his note shews. Johnson says, that during the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 238 pages
...had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it, till I am known and do not want it. I hope it is no...cynical asperity, not to confess obligations, where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 328 pages
...delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it—till I am solitary, and can. not impart it—till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very...cynical asperity not to confess obligations, where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 350 pages
...been delayed till I am indif" ferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am soli" tary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, " and do not want it. I hope it is no very cy" nical asperity not to confess obligations where " no benefit has been received ; or to be un" willing... | |
 | John Watkins - 1808 - 768 pages
...been delayed till I ana indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and can not impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is...cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the pub-. lick should consider me as owing that... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pages
...pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 pages
...pleased to take of my labours, if it had been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it, till I am solitary and cannot impart it, till I am known and do not want it/ ' I hare protracted my work,' he said in the second, ' till most... | |
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indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it 4 ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no 
