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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: A-Z - Page 8291
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The Attaché: Or, Sam Slick in England, Volume 2

Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1843 - 304 pages
...have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work, through difficulties,...act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smib of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before." " Ah !" said Mr....
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 22

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 648 pages
...repulsed from your door ; during which lime I hove been pushing on my work, through difficulties of winch it is useless to complain, and have brought it at...assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile <>i favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.1 • • • OUR friend...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 22

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 724 pages
...have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work, through difficulties of which it is useless lo complain, and have brought it at laal to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance,...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which s favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which m : To have fallen, my country crying, ' He has played...than dying Of a grieved and broken heart. Unrepining favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew...
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Class Book of Prose: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and ...

John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties,...assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. 21 The shepherd in Virgil...
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The people's art union. The historic gallery of portraits & paintings, with ...

People - 1845 - 346 pages
...have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties...publication, without one act of assistance, one word of cnocuragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before."...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 pages
...now passed, 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,...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...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D: Including A Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...have now past, since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties,...last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance2, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for...
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Lives of men of letters and science who flourished in ..., Volume 2; Volume 123

Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1846 - 580 pages
...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...
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