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... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Página 3231864Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 724 páginas
...pushing on my work, through difficulties of which it is useless lo complain, and have brought it at laal to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.' • • • OUR friend who... | |
| People - 1845 - 346 páginas
...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 of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of cnocuragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before."... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 páginas
...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 of publication, without one act of assistance,-)one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last... | |
| James Boswell - 1846 - 602 páginas
...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 of publication, without one act of assistance2, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for... | |
| Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1846 - 580 páginas
...referring to the passage which speaks very incorrectly of his having received from Lord Chesterfield " not one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour." (I., 237.) It seems almost as incorrect to say, that he had never received one smile of favour ; for... | |
| John Forster - 1848 - 740 páginas
...have been ' pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is ' useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the ' verge of publication,...one ' word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. ... Is ' not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on ' a man struggling for life in the... | |
| John Forster - 1848 - 734 páginas
...have been ' pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is ' useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the ' verge of publication,...one ' word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. ... Is ' not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on ' a man struggling for life in the... | |
| Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 páginas
...have been ' pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is ' useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the ' verge of publication,...one ' word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. ... Is ' not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on ' a man struggling for life in the... | |
| 1849 - 638 páginas
...Chesterfield : " I have been pushing on my task through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor." Why is Mr. Searjeant Talfourd, speaking of the late Mr. Barnes with reference to his editorship... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 páginas
...; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. 140 RECOLLECTIONS OF the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment 1 did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The Shepherd in Virgil grew... | |
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