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" I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations 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. "
A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed - Page 293
by Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 889 pages
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The Poetical Works ...: With the Life of the Author

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it, till I am known and do not want it. I hope it...my work thus far, with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed thcugh I should conclude it, if less be possible,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 328 pages
...indifferent, and cannot enjoy it — till I am solitary, and can. not impart it — till I am known, apd do- not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity...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,...
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Rasselas: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...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...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 pos~ sible,...
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Works, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...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...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,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With Critical Observations on His Works

Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...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...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,...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 6

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...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...carried on my work thus far with so little obligation effect it produced on Lord Chesterfield, is doubtful. He certainly felt, that it was necessary to offer...
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The British Nepos; or, Youth's mirror: lives of illustrious Britons

William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known and do not want it. I hope therefore it is no very cynical asperity, not to confess obligations...which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.'''' This stupendous monument of labour, talents, and genius, was published in May, 17»5; and his amiable...
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The life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where nu benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that...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,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 368 pages
...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...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,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 750 pages
...cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. t that whatever regard j ihe ours. -\ix shall not be disappointed, though I should conclude it, if leu be possible, with less ;...
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