 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 trang
...distinguished, is an honor which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well bow to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When...work through difficulties, of which it is useless ts complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 trang
...public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. 15 I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased...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,... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 476 trang
...would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your lordship in public, I had exhausted 15 all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly...rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without... | |
 | James Moir - 1880 - 204 trang
...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...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,... | |
 | William Edmund Wood Collins - 1880 - 92 trang
...soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill. 192. To the Earl of Chesterfield. — 7th January, 1755. — Seven years, my Lord, have now passed, since I waited...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,... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1880 - 274 trang
...soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill. 192. To the Earl of Chesterfield. — 7th January, 1755. — Seven years, my Lord, have now passed, since I waited...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,... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1880 - 106 trang
...soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill. 192. To the Earl of Chesterfield. — 7th January, 1755. — Seven years, my Lord, have now passed, since I waited...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,... | |
 | Peter John F. Gantillon - 1880 - 320 trang
...soldiers stood triumphant on the fatal hill. 192. To the Earl of Chesterfield.— 7th January, 1755. — Seven years, my Lord, have now passed, since I waited...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,... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1880 - 558 trang
...could ; and no man is. well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, ray Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward...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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 trang
...I could ; and no man is well pleased to hare hie all neglected, be It ever BO little. Scveu yenra. my lord, have- now passed since I waited in your outward...pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is uselces to complaiu, and have brought it ar la*-t to the v.-rge of publication, without one act o£... | |
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I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the... 
