 | John Richardson - 2000 - 416 pages
...till I am known and do not want it. 1 hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligation where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the Public should consider me as owing that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
 | Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Robert C. Leitz, Jesse S. Crisler - 2001 - 644 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...benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
 | 辜正坤 - 2003 - 580 pages
...known, and do not want it':6>. I hope it is no very cynical asperity'2" not to confess obligations'281 where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the Public should consider me as owing that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
 | Niall Rudd - 2005 - 232 pages
...been delayed until 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...Publick should consider me as owing that to a Patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.' This well-known passage differs from Juvenal in... | |
 | Michael McKeon - 2005 - 1864 pages
...authorial disdain for Lord Chesterfield's belated willingness to make good his offer of patronage: "I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess...Publick should consider me as owing that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself. "43 For several decades after the 1710 Copyright... | |
 | Simon White, John Goodridge, Bridget Keegan - 2006 - 324 pages
...a Man struggling for life in the Water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? ... I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess...benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
 | John Morrow - 2007 - 332 pages
...publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour ... 1 hope, it is no very cynical asperity, not to confess...benefit has been received; or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.... | |
 | Duane Robert Pierson - 2006 - 88 pages
...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. I hope it is no very cynical asperity to confess obligation where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should... | |
 | Edward Andrew - 2006 - 297 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 cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling... | |
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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. I hope it... 
