 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 pages
...a native of the rocks. "Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground,...encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my laboars, had it been early, had been kind : but it has been delayed till I am... | |
 | 1857 - 514 pages
...taunt to Chesterfield — " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?" — and would have wished Moore to say of Lansdowne, as he himself said of poor, mad, open-hearted... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help t The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been eirlv, had been kind ;... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 532 pages
...which he asks,- — ' ' Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help ! The notice you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early had been kind, but it has been delayed... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1859 - 432 pages
...Mœcenases — the public. 'Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?' So wrote brave old Samuel Johnson to his courtly Mœcenas, in that celebrated letter which Carlyle... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 376 pages
...patron before. ... Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man who is struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground,...encumbers him with help ? 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...native of the rocks.* " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notici.' 3 which you have Leen pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but... | |
 | Grace Wharton, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 522 pages
...had a patron before Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man who is struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground,...encumbers him with help ? 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... | |
 | 1865 - 620 pages
...grudges the notice till it is no longer needed; too often he " looks with unconcern on a man struggling in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help."f All honour, then, to Walter Savage Lander, who withheld not his hand from his brother. MAJRY... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed... | |
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Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help... 
