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
| William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1870 - 482 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. The shepherd in Virgil grew... | |
| David Henry Cruttenden - 1870 - 618 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, or one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had... | |
| Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 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...assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew,... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 páginas
...I have been pushing ou my work through difficulties, of which it Is useless to complain a:,- 1 have fnvor. . . . The notice which yon have been pleased to take of my labore, had it been early, hod been... | |
| 1872 - 660 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. The shepherd in "Virgil"... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1872 - 988 páginas
...I have been pushiu'i on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without...act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one emile of favor. . . . The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early,... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 páginas
...had done all I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. 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. " The Shepherd in Virgil grew... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 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... | |
| Harvard University - 1873 - 732 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...assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. b. This state of mind could not last long, and I returned with languid feelings to my inn. 1... | |
| Henry Blackburn, National Gallery (Great Britain) - 1877 - 86 páginas
...pushing on my work (the dictionary) through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without...one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour." — Boswell's Life of Johnson. There are three other pictures by Ward in this room (Nos. 432, 616,... | |
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