 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 páginas
...disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less : for I have long been awakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself...your Lordship's most humble, most obedient servant, « SAX. JOHKBOH." And thus must the rebellions " Sam. Johnson" turn him to the Bookselling guild, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 páginas
...obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long...lordship's most humble, most obedient servant, "SAM. JoHusou6." "While this was the talk of the town 7, (says Dr. Adams, in a letter to me) I happened to-visit... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 624 páginas
...favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed, though I should conclude it, if less be |H>s»ible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that...exultation, My Lord, your Lordship's most humble, And most obedient servant, RAMUM. JOHNION." It is said, upon good authority, that Johnson once received... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 páginas
...obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long...most humble, most obedient servant, " SAM. JOHNSON." (2) (1) In this passage Dr. Johnson evidently alludes to the loss of his wife. We find the same tender... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 páginas
...obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long...Your Lordship's most humble, " Most obedient servant, " SAMUEL JOHNSON." My concluding extract is of a very different description—as different as the character... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 páginas
...obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed, though I should conclude it, if yonr lordship's most humble and most obedient servant, SAMUEL JOHNSON." 18. " Triumphal arch ! that... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 páginas
...disappointed though I should conclnde it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long awakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself...most humble, most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON. While Johnson was laboriously engaged on his ' Dictionary,' his tragedy of Irene, was, through the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 páginas
...obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if ray lord — Your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant — 8дм. JOHNSON. The poetry of Johnson... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 páginas
...disappointed though I should conclnde it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long awakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, my lord,—Your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON. While Johnson was laboriously... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 páginas
...obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long...Your Lordship's most humble, " Most obedient servant, " SAMUEL JOHNSON." My concluding extract is of a very different description — as different as the... | |
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Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted... 
