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
| Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1856 - 370 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...assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.' " " Ah !" said Mr. Hopewell,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 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,...assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. In the deep mines of science,... | |
| 1856 - 864 páginas
...whole affair with the most uujuslitiable indifference, without vouchsafing to the struggling author " one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour;" how, when the gigantic undertaking was on the verge of completion, and other productions had established... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 470 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... | |
| Cornelius Van Santvoord - 1856 - 470 páginas
...with the adverse elements, " to the verge of publication," " without," as he tells Chesterfield, " one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor." He had commanded success, and moved thenceforward a monarch in the world of letters. Webster,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 páginas
...I have been pushing on my work* through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have God Al "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. "Is... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 páginas
...pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless lo complain, and have brought it, at kst, 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. In the deep mines of science,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 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,...assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not •xpect, for I never had a patron before. In the deep mines of science,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 620 páginas
...I have been pushing on my work* through, difficulties, of which it is nseless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without...one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. "Is... | |
| James Boswell - 1860 - 496 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, 1 one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had... | |
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