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Smaller specimens of English literature, with notes. Ed. by W. Smith - Page 217
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The life and adventures of Oliver Goldsmith

John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...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 it is no...which Providence has enabled ' me to do for myself.' And from this man, even now, there was nothing to separate the humblest of literary workmen. Here were...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...delayed till I am indifferent,and can not enjoy it; till I am solitary, and can not impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very...carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclnde it, if less be possible,...
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The English Language in Its Elements and Forms: With a History of Its Origin ...

William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...delayed till I am indifferent, and can not enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and can not impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is. no very...carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed, though I should conclude it, if less be possible,...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...delayed till I am indifferent, and can not enjoy it; till I am solitary, and can not impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very...me to do for myself. " Having carried on my work, therefore, with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...delayed till I am indifferent, and can not enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and can not impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very...providence has enabled me to do for myself. Having carried ou my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed...
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The Modern British Essayists: Carlyle, Thomas. Critical and miscellaneous essays

1852 - 590 pages
...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, it is no very...which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. * The F.nfliih Dictionary. t Were time and printer's spare of no value, it were easy to wnsh awny certain...
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Sketches of English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Present Century

Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pages
...delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it, till I am solitary and cannot impart itf , till I am known and do not want it. I hope it is no very...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...
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Pitman's Journal of Commercial Education, Volume 11

1852 - 436 pages
...I hope it is no cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or be unwilling that the public should consider me as...carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I shall conclude it, if less be possible,...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 568 pages
...and cannot impart it; till I am known and do not want it. I hope, it is no very cynical asperit}^, not to confess obligations, where no benefit has been...which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. * The English Dictionary. -j- Were time and printer's space of 510 value, it were easy to wash away...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People, Volume 1

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 pages
...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 it is no very...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....
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