...should be no more! " Seven years, my Lord, have now passed, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have...one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. "Is...

...it ever so little. " Seven years, iny Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I...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...

...passed, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have0" been pushing on my work* through difficulties, of...last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance/)one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last...

...should be no more ! ' Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I...last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance,t one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. * The English Dictionary. t Were time...

...have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which lime I have been pushing on my work through difficulties,...one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour." Here as so often in his writing life, Johnson was not entirely dear of the old literary arrangements,...

...professional writers. "Seven years, my Lord, have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have...difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and brought it at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement,...

...February 1 754, quoted in Boswell's Life, is a classic example. His Lordship is accused of treatingJohnson 'without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour', and of delaying his patronage 'till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and...

...now passed since l waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time 1 have been pushing on my work through difficulties...publication without one act of assistance, one word or encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment l did not expect, for l never had a patron...

...door; during which tune I have been pushing my work through difficulties, of which it I* iistiltias to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the...assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. "I* not a Patron, my Lord,...

...sting unheralded by the more innocuous parallel terms that come before. Another resounding triplet ("without one Act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour") goes uncluttered by any mention of the small payment that Johnson had in fact received (a payment which,...