 | 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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pages
...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...owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. " Having carried on my work, therefore, with so little obligation to any favorer... | |
 | John Forster - 1855 - 528 pages
..."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...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 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 where no benefit has been receiTed, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that '.•a patron, which... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 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...that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favorer of learning,... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 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...that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. It is while he was working on his dictionary that Johnson turned to the periodical... | |
 | Allen Reddick - 1996 - 292 pages
...was now presenting himself, a good patron, nurturing the work and its author. He wrote: "I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations...benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the Publick should consider me as owing that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself."... | |
 | Joan G. Nagle - 1995 - 396 pages
...enjoy it, till l am solitary and cannot impart it, till l am known and do not want it. l hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations...owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favorer of learning,... | |
 | Tim Fulford - 1996 - 274 pages
...not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the Publick should consider me as owing that to a Patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so litde obligation to any favourer of learning,... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 pages
...till I am known and do not want it. I hope it is no very cinical asperity not to confess obligation where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling...that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of Learning... | |
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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... 
