...have " now past," he wrote to Lord Chesterfield, on appearance of the Dictionary four years before, " since I waited in your " outward rooms, or was repulsed...one word of encouragement, or one smile " of favour. ... Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks " with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water,...

...before, " since I waited in your " outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during " which time 1 have been pushing on my work through " difficulties,...one word of encouragement, or one smile " of favour. ... Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks " with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water,...

...all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected,...assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The Shepherd in Virgil grew...

...the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected,...assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. In the deep mines of science,...

...a long and fruitless attendance on Lord Chesterfield, says : ' Seven years, my Lord, have now past since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed...assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.' " " Ah !" said Mr. Hopewell,...

...after a long and fruitless attendance on Lord Chesterfield, says: ' Seven years, my Lord, have now past since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed...assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.'" " Ah !" said Mr. Hopewell,...

...whole affair with the most uujuslitiable indifference, without vouchsafing to the struggling author " one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour;" how, when the gigantic undertaking was on the verge of completion, and other productions had established...

...referring to the passage which speaks very incorrectly of his having received from Lord Chesterfield " not one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour." (I., 237.) It seems almost as incorrect to say, that he had never received one smile of favour ; for...

...with the adverse elements, " to the verge of publication," " without," as he tells Chesterfield, " one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor." He had commanded success, and moved thenceforward a monarch in the world of letters. Webster,...

...of Lord Chesterfield, and, through him, of the listening world, that Patronage should be no more! " / "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. "Is...