 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,...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page xxxiiby Samuel Johnson - 1806Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...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 patron before. precise and probable ground for Johnson's animosity than Boswell gives, by hinting that Johnson expected... | |
 | 1836 - 342 pages
...last to the very verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect,...never had a patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my lord, one who... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...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,...the rocks. "Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks wlfh tmcencern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 pages
...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,...had a patron" before. The Shepherd in Virgil grew, at last, acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron," my Lord, one... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1841 - 338 pages
...withouf one act .of assistance, one word oi' encouragement, or one *mile of favour. Such treotment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my lord, one who... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 620 pages
...assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for 1 never had a patron before. "The Shepherd in Virgil...acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. "le not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a mnn struggling for life in the water,... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1843 - 330 pages
...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 patron before." " Ah!" said Mr. Hopewell, "a man who feels that he is wrong, is always angry with somebody else. Johnson... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1843 - 594 pages
...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 patron before." " Ah !" said Mr. Hopewell, " a man who feels that he is wrong, is always angry with somebody else.... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1843 - 304 pages
...to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smib of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before." " Ah !" said Mr. Hopewell, " a man who feels that he is wrong, is always angry with somebody else.... | |
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