| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...mortified. I am suffering without any prospect of reward, and only from my own folly.' Ib. p. 326. ' ' You cannot imagine what labour, what perplexity, what...polishing; many a time have I thought of giving it up.' Letters of Harwell, p. 311. 1 Boswell writing to Temple in 1775, says : — ' I try to keep a journal,... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...mortified. I am suffering without any prospect of reward, and only from my own folly.' Ib. p. 326. 1 'You cannot imagine what labour, what perplexity,...polishing; many a time have I thought of giving it up.' Letters of Boswell, p. 311. 1 Boswell writing to Temple in 1775, says : — ' I try to keep a journal,... | |
| James Boswell - 1857 - 464 pages
...evenings : but I reckon that a third of the Work is settled, so that I shall get to press very soon. You cannot imagine what labour, what perplexity, what...thought of giving it up. However, though I shall be uneasilysensible of its many deficiencies, it will certainly be to the world a very valuable and peculiar... | |
| James Boswell - Authors - 1857 - 474 pages
...evenings : but I reckon that a third of the Work is settled, so that I shall get to press very soon. You cannot imagine what labour, what perplexity, what...prodigious multiplicity of materials, in supplying omissions,in searching for papers, buried in different masses, and all this besides the exertion of... | |
| 1874 - 382 pages
...evenings ; but I reckon that a third of the work is settled, so that I shall get to press very soon. You cannot imagine what labour, what perplexity, what...this besides the exertion of composing and polishing, a time have I thought of giving it up. However, though Clone's Edition of Shakspero, in ten volumes,... | |
| Percy Fitzgerald - Authors, Scottish - 1891 - 338 pages
...what course he should take—whether " to game," as he called it, with his book, or dispose of it. " You cannot imagine what labour, what perplexity, what...polishing. Many a time have I thought of giving it up." He little thought when * He had at first intended it to be very short and summary :— " It appears... | |
| Percy Fitzgerald - Authors, Scottish - 1891 - 304 pages
...what course he should take — whether " to game," as he called it, with his book, or dispose of it " You cannot imagine what labour, what perplexity, what...composing and polishing. Many a time have I thought of yiving it up" He little thought when * He had at first intended it to be very short and summary : —... | |
| Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1913 - 594 pages
...imagine,' he wrote in 1789, ' what labour, what perplexity, what vexation I have endured in arranging » prodigious multiplicity of materials, in supplying...polishing : many a time have I thought of giving it up.' "Johnson and Boswell But he was confident in the result It was to be not merely the best biography... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, Scottish - 1908 - 398 pages
...evenings : but I reckon that a third of the Work is settled, so that I shall get to press very soon. You cannot imagine what labour, what perplexity, what...time have I thought of giving it up. However, though 1 shall be uneasily sensible of its many deficiencies, it will certainly be to the world a very valuable... | |
| George Mallory - 1912 - 364 pages
...in London to receive Malone's help, Malone who is ' Johnsonianissimus,' in revising the ' Life ' : You cannot imagine what labour, what perplexity, what...polishing : many a time have I thought of giving it up. And yet he has the firmest conviction that the book will be a masterpiece ; it will be an unparalleled... | |
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