 | Thomas Carlyle - 1853 - 120 pages
...: 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...enabled me to do for myself. ' Having carried on my Work thus far with ,so little obligation to any favourer of learning ; I shall not be disappointed though... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 594 pages
...been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it;f till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is...enabled me to do for myself. " Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
...delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it: till I am solitary, and cannot impart it: till 1 am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very...me to do for myself. '• Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 588 pages
...till I am indifferent, and caunot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and caunot impart it ;t till I sin known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity, not to confess ohligatious where no henefit has heen received, or to he unwilling that the puhlic should cousider... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...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...which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. It is while he was working on his dictionary that Johnson turned to the periodical essay— that peculiarly... | |
 | Allen Reddick - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 292 pages
...along, as he 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...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 - Technology & Engineering - 1995 - 396 pages
...and cannot 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...enabled me to do for myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, l shall not be disappointed though l... | |
 | Tim Fulford - Literary Criticism - 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...enabled me to do for myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so litde obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1998 - 1540 pages
...cannot enjoy it ; till 1 am solitary, and cannot impart it ;* till I am known, and do not want it. 1 hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess...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.... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 396 pages
...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 it is no very cinical asperity not to confess obligation where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that... | |
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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... 
