 | William Jesse - 1844 - 422 pagina’s
...in going, to exist amphibiously, like an Undine, between raging billows and desolate rocks ; and yet the shepherd in Virgil grew, at last, acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. But you would laugh clandestinely at me in your bustled sleeve ; for there is nothing more ridiculous... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pagina’s
...complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such...I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. 21 The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is... | |
 | People - 1845 - 346 pagina’s
...brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of cnocuragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before." " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for his life in the water,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pagina’s
...complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance2, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such...acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks 3. 1 [No very moderate expectation for " a retired and nnconrtly scholar!" — ED.] 1 The following... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pagina’s
...complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance^), one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such...I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. precise and probable ground for Johnson's animosity than Boswell gives, by hinting that Johnson expected... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pagina’s
...complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance ' , one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for 1 never had a patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquaintcd with Lovct and found... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 1294 pagina’s
...prospect of the trade wiud, hard to move. ' The 'shepherd in Virgil,' said Johnson to Lord Chesterfield, ' grew at last acquainted with love, and found him a native ' of the rocks.' Nor had adverse circumstances been without their effect upon the literary character itself. Covered... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pagina’s
...prospect of the trade wind, hard to move. ' The 'shepherd in Virgil,' said Johnson to Lord Chesterfield, ' grew at last acquainted with love, and found him a native ' of the rocks." Nor had adverse circumstances been without their effect upon the literary character itself. Covered... | |
 | 1848 - 798 pagina’s
...prospect of the trade-wind hard to move. ' The shepherd in Virgil,' said Johnson to Lord Chesterfield, ' grew at last acquainted with love, and found him a native of the rocks." Nor had adverse circumstances been without their effect upon the literary character itself. Covered... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pagina’s
...prospect of the trade wind, hard to move. ' The 'shepherd in Virgil,' said Johnson to Lord Chesterfield, ' grew at last acquainted with love, and found him a native ' of the rocks.' Nor had adverse circumstances been without their effect upon the literary character itself. Covered... | |
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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 of publication, without one act of assistance,... 
