 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1851 - 1502 pages
...and can not impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is. no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been...unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. " Having carried on my work thus... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 1852 - 458 pages
...solitary and cannot impart itf , till I am known and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been...unwilling that the public should consider me as owing * See page 205. f Alluding to the death of his wife, which had occurred in the interval. that to a... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 590 pages
...solitary and cannot impart it; till I am known and do not want it. I hope, it is no very cynical asperity, not to confess obligations, where no benefit has been...unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. * The F.nfliih Dictionary. t Were... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the publick should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 594 pages
...and cannot impart it;f till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity, not to confess obligations where no benefit has been...unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. " Having carried on my work thus... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
...solitary, and cannot impart it: till 1 am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been...unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. '• Having carried on my work thus... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1853 - 130 pages
...and cannot impart it ; till I am known and do not want it. I hope, it is no very cynical asperity, not to confess obligations, where no benefit has been...unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. ' Having carried on my Work thus... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 512 pages
...and cannot impart it; till I am known, " and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity " not to confess obligations where no benefit 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 myself." What... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...and can not impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been...unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. " Having carried on my work, therefore,... | |
 | John Forster - 1855 - 528 pages
...and cannot impart it ; till I am known, "and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not " to confess obligations where no benefit has...unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to "a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself." What ! said he in more familiar... | |
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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. I hope... 
