 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...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 art of pleasing...no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 540 pages
...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 art of pleasing...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... | |
 | Gems - 1866 - 168 pages
...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 art of pleasing...no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 548 pages
...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 been pushing... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 pages
...me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the arts of pleasing, which a retired and uncourtly scholar...no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years, my Lord, have now passed s^ijce \ waited in your outward rooms,... | |
 | United States. Internal Revenue Service - 1975 - 124 pages
...recognize and compliment them. Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote with bitterness to the Earl of Chesterfield: "I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little." When someone writes you a letter of particular charm or ready understanding,... | |
 | Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 pages
...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 art of pleasing,...no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. At about the same time, Edward Taylor, living in the bleakness of the New World,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1993 - 638 pages
...himself: In the famous letter to Lord Chesterfield: "When I had once addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess" (Boswell, Life of Johnson, 184-85). Carlyle observes, "What soul-subduing magic, for the very clown... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 pages
...that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once adressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the Art of pleasing...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... | |
 | Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Robert C. Leitz, Jesse S. Crisler - 2001 - 644 pages
...had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the arts of pleasing which a wearied and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all...no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. Seven years, my Lord, have now passed, since I waited in your outward rooms and... | |
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I had exhausted all the art of 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. 
