...contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your...and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. the verge of...

...contending ; hut I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your...pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. 4 Seven year«, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from...

...contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess....

...Long live the Queen ! — 4. Far from me be such frigid philosophy. — 5. Thy kingdom come. — 6. Ho man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. — 7. Turn we a moment Fancy's rapid flight. — 8. Fall he who must beneath a rival's arms. — 9....

...contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the arts of pleasing, which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ;...

...recognize and compliment them. Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote with bitterness to the Earl of Chesterfield: "I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased...to have his all neglected, be it ever so little." When someone writes you a letter of particular charm or ready understanding, do not shy away from writing...

...address. . . But I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed your...pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. At about the same time, Edward Taylor, living in the bleakness of the New World, used language with...

...himself: In the famous letter to Lord Chesterfield: "When I had once addressed your Lordship in publick, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess" (Boswell, Life of Johnson, 184-85). Carlyle observes, "What soul-subduing magic, for the very clown...

...incouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once adressed your Lordship in public, I had exhausted all the Art...be it ever so little. Seven years, My lord have now past since I waited in your outward Rooms or was repulsed from your Door, during which time I have...

...attention it deserves. For example, in 1754, Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote in a letter to Lord Chesterfield: "No man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little." Thirty years ago, Maslow (1968) called attention to the importance of satisfying a person's basic needs...