 | 1852 - 436 pages
...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 be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 pages
...cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it;f till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity, not to confess obligations...benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1853 - 130 pages
...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,...benefit has been received ; or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
...cannot enjoy it: till I am solitary, and cannot impart it: till 1 am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations...benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pages
...unwilling that the puhlic should cousider me as owing that to a patron which Providenee has enahled me to do for myself. " Having carried on my work thus far with so little ohligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not he disappointed though I should conclnde it, if... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 642 pages
...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...has been " received ; or to be unwilling that the public should con" sider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has " enabled me to do for... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 512 pages
...obligations where no benefit has been " received ; or to be unwilling that the public should con" sider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has " enabled me to do for myself." What ! said he in more familiar mood to Garrick, have I sailed a long and difficult voyage round the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...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 where no benefit has been receired, or to be unwilling that the public should consider rne as owing that to a patron, which Providence... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 pages
...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 patron which...my work thus far with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed, though I should conclude it, if less be possible,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pages
...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...benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
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The notice which you have been 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... 
