He tells his own story in a sort of epistolary petition he addressed to a noble friend, characteristic of an author, who cannot be deemed unpatronised, yet whose name, after all his painful labours, might be inserted in my "Calamities of Authors."
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3)"
Isaac Disraeli
His frame shattered by the whole train of hypochondriacal symptoms, there was nothing to cheer the querulous author, who with half the consciousness of genius, lived neglected and unpatronised.
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3)"
Isaac Disraeli
Such a man could not long pass unnoticed and unpatronised by a Court, which searches with Lyncean eyes for the basest hearts, and is actuated by Scotch principles and Scotch counsels.
"The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX"
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