 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pages
...been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is...benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 376 pages
...been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known and do not want it. I hope it is no...which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.' The conduct of Johnson, on this occasion, was approved by DEFENSIVE PRIDE OF THE ' RESPECTABLE HOTTENTOT.'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till 1 am solitary, and cannot impartit 4 ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is...benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 pages
...waiting in his anteroom he ought not to have omitted a pecuniary obligation, however inconsiderable.—C. I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very...benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is...benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
 | Allen Reddick - 1996 - 292 pages
...along, as he was now presenting himself, a good patron, nurturing the work and its author. He wrote: "I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess...which Providence has enabled me to do for myself." Sledd and Kolb comment on this passage as follows: This sentence expresses quite directly the controlled... | |
 | Joan G. Nagle - 1995 - 396 pages
...and cannot enjoy it, till l am solitary and cannot impart it, till l am known and do not want it. l hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess...benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
 | Nell Rogers, Guy Rogers - 1996 - 70 pages
...aMgatlnsj* •*••• BO tenant ha* bean received, or to be unwilling that the pubHe shoved consider me M owing that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for my*elf. "Having carried my work thaa far with ao httto obligation to any favorer of learning , I ahall... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 pages
...has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it, till I am solitary and cannot impart it, till I am known and do not want it. I hope it is no very cinical asperity not to confess obligation where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that... | |
 | Norma Clarke - 2001 - 282 pages
...and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. 1 hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess...benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the Public should consider me as owing that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.1... | |
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The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it... 
