 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never...acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, fur ind over the sea, which the л patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when... | |
 | University magazine - 1851 - 822 pages
...the definition of the gruff moralist, in his celebrated letter to Lord Chesterfield — " A patron is one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for...when he has reached ground encumbers him with help." Sir Walter Scott was not one of these. His kind heart and active benevolence went to work at once,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...brought it at last to the verge of publication without one word of encouragement or one smile of favor. th what to sight or smell was sweet ! from thee How shall I parti and whither wander down Into acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. " Is not a patron, my lord, one who can... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 568 pages
...verge of publication, without one act of assistance/)one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with...when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help I The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind: but... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pages
...of publication, without one act of assistance.^ one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with...found him a native of the rocks. "Is not a patron, 015* Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
...without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment 1 did not expect, for I never had a patron before. "...unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and wheu he has reached ground encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1853 - 130 pages
...of favour. * The English Dictionary. f Were time and printer's space of no value, it were easy to ' The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with...when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help P The . notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind... | |
 | 1853 - 1074 pages
...his wife, through friendship for their son — he would regret the bitter taunt to Chesterfield — " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern...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... | |
 | 1853 - 528 pages
...and his wife, through friendship for their son—he would regret the bitter taunt to Chesterfield—" Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern...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... | |
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... was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement,... 
