 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, hart 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 it5; till 1 am known, and do not want it. 1 hope it is no very cynical asperity, not to confess obligations... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...with help ? 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,...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... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 1294 pages
...with help ? 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,...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...him with help? 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,...cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it4; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - 332 pages
...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...cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.' Johnson brought the manner to unusual heights of marmorial dignity, but playful or ironic applications... | |
 | 298 pages
...him with help? 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,...cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it." Charles Dickens caricatured Chesterfield as Sir John Chester in Barnaby Rudge (1871). The opinions... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pages
...as a lethally accurate missile. "The notice which you have been pleased to take of my Labours . . . has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot...cannot impart it, till I am known and do not want it": it is the spat-out closing monosyllables that do the damage here, delivering a sting unheralded by... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...him with help? 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 SOUtary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. SAMUEL JOHNSON, (1709-1784) British... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 pages
...him with help. 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...cannot impart it, till I am known and do not want it. I hope it is no very cinical asperity not to confess obligation where no benefit has been received,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1998 - 1540 pages
...him with help? 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 1 am solitary, and cannot impart it ;* till I am known, and do not want it. 1 hope it is no very cynical... | |
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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. 
