 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...verge of publication, without one act of 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, though Frenchmen may toll, Can their strength be compared to Locke, Newton,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 pages
...verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a...acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. 4. Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...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 patron1 before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found mm a native of... | |
 | Nell Rogers, Guy Rogers - 1996 - 70 pages
...verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. "I* not a Patron, my Lord, one who look* with unconcern on a man *truggUng for life in -toe water,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1998 - 1540 pages
...complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance,1 one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour....acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.1 'Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the... | |
 | Norma Clarke - 2001 - 282 pages
...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....not expect, for I never had a Patron before . . The letter continued in tones of heavy sarcasm: Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern... | |
 | Thomas Wolfe, Maxwell Evarts Perkins - 2000 - 390 pages
...that final and irreparable loss, to agree with Samuel Johnson when he said: "The shepherd in Vergil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks." You say in one of your letters that you never knew a soul with whom you felt that you were in such... | |
 | H. J. Jackson - 2001 - 344 pages
...verse (eg, The Vanity of Human Wishes, 1:105). At the famous line in the Letter to Lord Chesterfield, "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks," he responds with vexation, "What does this mean? that Ld. Ch's heart was a Rock? — if so, to me it... | |
 | John Crowley - 2002 - 564 pages
...brown and round, and when he asked her what they were, she said "Years." BROTHER NORTH-WIND'S SECRET The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him to be a native of the rocks. —Johnson Aer John Drinkwater's death in 1920, Violet, unable to bear... | |
 | 辜正坤 - 2003 - 580 pages
...Publication, without one Act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour'201. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a...acquainted with Love, and found him a Native of the Rocks'2". Is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the... | |
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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 of publication, without one act of assistance,*... 
