 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1870 - 482 pages
...myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed, though I should conclude...your Lordship's most humble, Most obedient servant, SAMUEL JOHNSON. . FROM THE PREFACE TO HIS DICTIONARY. In hope of giving longevity to that which its... | |
 | David Henry Cruttenden - 1870 - 618 pages
...possible, with less; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, on which I once boasted with so much exultation. " My Lord, your lordship's...humble, " Most obedient servant, " SAM. JOHNSON." 5. Historical Writings are accounts of past events and transactions. They include National History,... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1871 - 564 pages
...myself. Having earned on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude...most humble, most obedient Servant, SAM. JOHNSON. CHAPTER XI. OTHEK WEITEKS OF THE SEVENTH ERA. POETS. WILLIAM SHENSTONE, born in 1714, at Leasowesin... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude...most humble, most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON. [From Rasselas. — A Dissertation on Poetry.] "\VHEREVER I went, I found that poetry was considered... | |
 | 1872 - 660 pages
...myself. Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude...Your lordship's most humble, Most obedient servant, SAMUEL JOHNSON. EXTRACT FROM THE PREFACE TO THE DICTIONARY. Ix hope of giving longevity to that which... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 pages
...myself. " Having carried on my work, therefore, with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude...Your Lordship's most humble, " Most obedient servant, " SAMUEL JOHNSON." My concluding extract is of a very different description—as different as the character... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pages
...be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been iorig wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted...Your Lordship's most humble, Most obedient servant, SAMUEL JOHNSON.' In the few years succeeding the publicntion of his u Dictionary," be employed himself... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...with во little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I shall n g\ =:a?u }-5 L 娽| S <~ 8` >] Wgn z ȿ) g +n ' While this wa« the talk of the town,' says Dr. Adams in a letter to me, ' I happened to visit Dr.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...myself. " 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...humble " Most obedient servant, " SAM. JOHNSON."" " While this was the talk of the town, (says Dr. Adams, in a letter to me) I happened to visit Dr.... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 480 pages
...far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I shall conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I...humble, " Most obedient servant, " SAM. JOHNSON." If a letter like that does not " give the world assurance of a man," all writing is worse than vanity.... | |
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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... 
