 | 1852 - 590 pagini
...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...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,... | |
 | 1852 - 302 pagini
...talents, had it been early, bad been kind , but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and can pot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it" There are half-way enemies, too,—creatures who keep the grudge, and show it under every possible... | |
 | 1861 - 490 pagini
...late-won affluence. He could indeed say with greater truth than Johnson — " It has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it." He never recovered the death of his beloved son. The loss of Reynolds, occurring about the same time,... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pagini
...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 itf , till I am known and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pagini
...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,...cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer to Lard ChtslerßeU Payment Give the laborer... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - 332 pagini
...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,...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... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pagini
...missile. "The notice which you have been pleased to take of my Labours . . . has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it, till I am solitary...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... | |
 | 298 pagini
...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,...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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pagini
...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 author, lexicographer. Quoted in lames Boswell, life oí Dr. ¡ohnson... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 pagini
...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...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,... | |
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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. 
