 Seven years, My Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge...  Works - Page 52by Samuel Johnson - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1863 - 400 pages
...pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess ; 12 I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.13 Seven years, my Lord, have now passed u since 15 I waited in your outward rooms,16 or 17... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever...lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties,... | |
 | Wise sayings - Maxims - 1864 - 394 pages
...air, And wander in the luxury of light. NEGLECT. Sorrow of I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Letter to Lord Chesterfield.— Dr. SAMUEL JOHNSON. NEST. Description of a Thrush's Within a thick... | |
 | Scotland - 1864 - 808 pages
...a succession of sonorous sentences, which came heavily on him, and did him a good deal of damage. " Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been probing on my work through dillk-ulties,... | |
 | England - 1864 - 808 pages
...him a succession of sonorous sentences, which came heavily on him, and did him a good deal of damage. "Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever...lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties,... | |
 | Gems - English poetry - 1866 - 168 pages
...pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever...lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - American letters - 1866 - 540 pages
...pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could, and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my Lord, have now past since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - Great Britain - 1867 - 574 pages
...pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. ' Seven years, my lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward room, or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 pages
...done all that I could; and no man is well pleiscd to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. 8. Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties,... | |
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