 | 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... | |
 | National Gallery (Great Britain), National Gallery (Great Britain)., Ralph Nicholson Wornum - 1869 - 204 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....did not expect, for I never had a patron before." Boswell's Life of Johnson. Engraved by CW Sharpe. On canvas, 3 ft. 5| in. h. by 4 ft. 6£ in. to. *... | |
 | Louis Le Brun, Henri van Laun - 1869 - 290 pages
...to 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....I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. 1 Papers, Articles. — 2 That regard for vhich I saw the world contending, Cet inttfret Uont je voyais... | |
 | National gallery - 1869 - 208 pages
...of his Dictionary. brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour....did not expect, for I never had a patron before." Boswell's Life of Johnson. Engraved by CW Sharp*. On canvas, 3 ft. 5| in. h. by 4 ft. 6£ in. w. Exhibited... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 396 pages
...to a plain woman, knew very well what he meant when he wrote that single poetic sentence of his, — "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him to be a native of the rocks." In January, 1778, Lessing's wife died from the effects of a difficult... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 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...Virgil grew, at last, acquainted with Love, and found him.a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling... | |
 | 1872 - 660 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...acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. not enjoj" it ; till I am solitary, and can not impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I... | |
 | William Lennie - 1872 - 248 pages
...throned monarch better than his crown. Whatever is, is right. Pools rush in where angels fear to tread. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. Those who are rich are not always so happy as their poorer neighbours. If it had not been that I had... | |
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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,*... 
