 | English literature - 1791 - 814 pages
...door; during which time I have been pufhing on my work through difficulties, of which it is ufelefs to complain, and have brought it at laft, to the verge of publication, without one aft of affiftance, one word of encouragement, or one fmile of favour. Such treatment I did not expeft,... | |
 | 1791 - 728 pages
...; during which time 1 have been pufhing on my work through difficulties, of which it is •ufelefs to complain ; and have brought it at laft to the verge of publication, without one aft of affiilance, one word of encouragement, or one fmile 'of favour. Such treatment 1 did not expeft,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 564 pages
...door ; during which time I have been pufhing on my work through difficulties, of which it is ufelefs to complain, and have brought it, at laft, to the verge of publication, without one act of affiftance8, one word of encouragement, or one fmile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 652 pages
...door; during which time I have been pufhing on my work through difficulties, of which it is ufelefs to " complain, and have brought it at laft to the " verge of publication, without one act of " affiftance, one word of encouragement, or " one fmile of favour. Such treatment I did not... | |
 | Joseph Towers - France - 1796 - 464 pages
...during which time I have been * pufliing on my work through difficulties, of which « it is ufelefs to complain, and have brought it, at ' laft, to the verge of publication, without one aft VOL. III. Y « of • « any patronage of the great." He feem», indeed, and not yvithout reafon,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 422 pages
...during which. " time I have been pufhing on my work " through difficulties, of which it is ufelefs to " complain, and have brought it at laft to the " verge of publication, without one act of " affiftance, one word of encouragement, or " one fmile of favour. Such treatment I did " not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 416 pages
...during which '' time I have been pufhing on my work " through difficulties, of which it is ufelefs to " complain, and have brought it at laft to the '' verge of publication, without one act of '' afiiftance, one word of encouragement, or " one fmile of favour. Such treatment I did not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 436 pages
...during which " time " time I have been pufhing on my work " through difficulties, of which it is ufelefs to " complain, and have brought it at laft to the *' verge of publication, without one act oif af'* fiftance, one word of encouragement, or one " fmile of favour. Such treatment I did not... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1791 - 610 pages
...door: during which lime I have been pufhing on my work through difficulties, of which it is ufelefs to complain, and have brought it, at laft, to the verge of publication, without one aft of affiftance, one word of encouragement, or one fmile of favour. Such treatment I did not exped,... | |
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I waited in your outward room, or was " repulfed from your door ; during which. " time I have been pufhing on my work " through difficulties, of which it is ufelefs to " complain, and have brought it at laft to the " verge of publication, without one... 