 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ;...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... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ;...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ;...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...Lordship in public, -I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar fan possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man...neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years, my Lord, are now past, since I waited in your outer rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. 1 had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased...it ever so little. ' Seven years, my Lord, have now passed, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ;...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... | |
 | John Watkins - Authors, English - 1808 - 768 pages
...your lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a r£> tired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ;...or was repulsed from your door ; during which time 1 have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 520 pages
...addressed your Lordship in public!;, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ;...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ;...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1809 - 530 pages
...addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ;...which time I have been pushing on my. work through tiifficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it,' at last, to the verge. of... | |
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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 on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the... 
