 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
...delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it: till I am solitary, and cannot impart it: till 1 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.... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pages
...till I am indifferent, and caunot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and caunot impart it ;t till I sin known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity, not to confess ohligatious where no henefit has heen received, or to he unwilling that the puhlic should cousider... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 642 pages
...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...has been " received ; or to be unwilling that the public should con" sider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has " enabled me to do for... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - 332 pages
...favour', and of delaying his patronage '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.' Johnson brought the manner to unusual heights of marmorial dignity, but playful or ironic applications... | |
 | Tim Fulford - 1996 - 274 pages
...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...myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so litde obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pages
...of my Labours . . . 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": it is the spat-out closing monosyllables that do the damage here, delivering a sting unheralded by... | |
 | 298 pages
...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." Charles Dickens caricatured Chesterfield as Sir John Chester in Barnaby Rudge (1871). The opinions... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am SOUtary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. SAMUEL JOHNSON, (1709-1784) British author, lexicographer. Quoted in lames Boswell, life oí Dr. ¡ohnson... | |
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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. 
