 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 páginas
...little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long...most humble, most obedient servant, " SAM. JOHNSON." (2) (1) In this passage Dr. Johnson evidently alludes to the loss of his wife. We find the same tender... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 páginas
...little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long...Your Lordship's most humble, " Most obedient servant, " SAMUEL JOHNSON." My concluding extract is of a very different description—as different as the character... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 páginas
...little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed, though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long...boasted myself with so much exultation. " My lord, yonr lordship's most humble and most obedient servant, SAMUEL JOHNSON." 18. " Triumphal arch ! that... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 páginas
...little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, ray lord — Your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant — 8дм. JOHNSON. The poetry of Johnson... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 páginas
...disappointed though I should conclnde it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long awakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself...humble, most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON. While Johnson was laboriously engaged on his ' Dictionary,' his tragedy of Irene, was, through the friendship... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 páginas
...disappointed though I should conclnde it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long awakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, my lord,—Your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON. While Johnson was laboriously... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 páginas
...little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long...Your Lordship's most humble, " Most obedient servant, " SAMUEL JOHNSON." My concluding extract is of a very different description — as different as the... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 568 páginas
...disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less : for I have long been awakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself...Lordship's most humble, most obedient servant, " SAM. JOHDSTSOBT." And thus must the rebellious " Sam. Johnson" turn him to the Bookselling guild, and the... | |
 | 1852 - 590 páginas
...disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less : for I have long been awakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself...your Lordship's most humble, most obedient servant, "SiM. JOHNSON." And thus must the rebellious " Sam. Johnson" turn him to the Bookselling guild, and... | |
 | 1852 - 436 páginas
...I shall not be disappointed though I shall conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation." How many poor authors might have addressed a similar letter to their patrons, had they only possessed... | |
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Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted... 
