| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...am indifferent, and can not enjoy 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...benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1858 - 638 pages
...obligatious where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should cousider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has...my work thus far with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible,... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1858 - 424 pages
...am indifferent, and can not enjoy 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...benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...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 cynical asperity,...benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
| 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...which Providence has enabled me to do for myself." Sledd and Kolb comment on this passage as follows: This sentence expresses quite directly the controlled... | |
| Tim Fulford - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 274 pages
...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 cynical asperity...myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so litde obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude... | |
| 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...benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
| Nell Rogers, Guy Rogers - Medical - 1996 - 70 pages
...aMgatlnsj* •*••• BO tenant ha* bean received, or to be unwilling that the pubHe shoved consider me M owing that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for my*elf. "Having carried my work thaa far with ao httto obligation to any favorer of learning , I ahall... | |
| 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...favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though 1 The following note is subjoined by Mr. Langton: — 'Dr. Johnson, when he gave me this copy of his... | |
| Lawrence Lipking - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 396 pages
...of assistance, one word of encouragment, or one smile of favour," and was "unwilling that the Public should consider me as owing that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself." Such an author rises above the petty curbs that might throttle a lesser talent. In these terms, Johnson's... | |
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