 Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since 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...  Samuel Johnson - Page 45by Sir Leslie Stephen - 1878 - 195 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar eau $ or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can poseen». t or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all...have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties,... | |
 | People - 1845 - 346 pages
...some expressions of general acknowledgment, this epistle ran in the following sarcastic strain : " Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 pages
...of Lord Chesterfield, and, through him, of the listening world, that 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 lime I have been pushing on my work* through difficulties,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...had once addressed your lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all...it ever so little. " Seven years, my lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pages
...Tyers, however, suggests a more in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all...it ever so little. " Seven years, my lord, have now past, since 1 waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...all t lu- art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that 1 could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all...it ever so little. " Seven years, my lord, have now past, since I watted in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...had onco addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the arts of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all...have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all...lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward room, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties... | |
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