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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: An essay on the life and genius of ... - Page ix
by Samuel Johnson - 1837
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Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 588 pages
...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 which time...assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The Shepherd in Virgil grew...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 568 pages
...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...last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance/)one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last...
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Samuel Johnson

Thomas Carlyle - 1853 - 120 pages
...patronage should be no more ! ' Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time...last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance,t one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. * The English Dictionary. t Were time...
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The National Magazine, Volume 2

Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 pages
...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...last, to the verge of publication without one act of assistance,3 one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for...
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Works, Including His Letters to His Son, &c: To which is Prefixed an ...

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
...waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been poshing on my work, through difficulties of which it is useless...encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment 1 did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted...
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The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 1

John Forster - 1854 - 642 pages
...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...one word of encouragement, or one smile " of favour. ... Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks " with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water,...
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The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 1

John Forster - 1854 - 512 pages
...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,...one word of encouragement, or one smile " of favour. ... Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks " with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water,...
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English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms. With a ...

William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 pages
...address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the...it at last to the verge of publication without one word of encouragement or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron...
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Recollections of a Literary Life

Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pages
...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...assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The Shepherd in Virgil grew...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

Thomas Carlyle - 1855 - 572 pages
...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...last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance,-)one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last...
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