 | Samuel Johnson - 1840
...consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. " Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any...exultation. " My lord, your lordship's most humble " ' pd most obedient servant, n«*M| , 'And " SAMUEL JOHNSON." It was in the summer of 1754 that the... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1841 - 320 páginas
...consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any...lordship's most humble, most obedient servant, S. JOHNSON. Wm. Cowper, Esq. to the Rev. Wra. Unwin. September 21, 1779. Amico mio, be pleased to buy me a glazier's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843
...patron, which Providence bas enabled me to do for myself. "Having carried on my work thus far with eo little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall...once boasted myself with so much exultation, My Lord, yonr Lordship's most humble, And most obedient servant, SAMUEL JOHNSON." It is said, upon good authority,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844
...consider me as owing that to a patron which providence has enabled me to do for myself. Having carried aried, ' nothing loath,' We to our simple meal retired ; The sportive — SAM. JOHNSON. The poetry of Johnson forms but a small portion of the history of his mind or of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844
...consider me as owing that to a patron which providence has euablcd ше to do for myself. Having carried rt 1 shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with lees ; for I have... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 372 páginas
...consider me as owing that to a patron which providence has enabled me to do for myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any...Your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant — SAM. JOHNSON. Reflections on Landing at lona. We were now treading that illustrious island which... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 568 páginas
...heing a native of Ibe roclu" actually k*ta " meaning. " 330 " Having carried on my Work thus far wilb so little obligation to any favourer of learning ;...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 with so much exultation.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846
...consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. "Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any...your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant, "SAM. JoHusou6." "While this was the talk of the town 7, (says Dr. Adams, in a letter to me) I happened... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846
...patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. "Having carried on my work thus far with no little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall...disappointed, though I should conclude it, if less be |H>s»ible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848
...consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. " Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any...Your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant, " SAM. JOHNSON." (2) (1) In this passage Dr. Johnson evidently alludes to the loss of his wife. We... | |
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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... 
