 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found 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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 pages
...acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. "Is not a patron, my lord, one who can look with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and then encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pages
...flight; In utlren, epUUea, and odes would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with...The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 532 pages
...this notice that produced Johnson's celebrated letter, in 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... | |
 | Peter Gay - 1999 - 204 pages
...Chesterfield, Samuel Johnson issued a resounding declaration of independence: "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?" Two years later, in his Dictionary of the English Language, Johnson,... | |
 | Roger D. Sell - 2000 - 372 pages
...out Johnson's experience of the noble lord's own politeness, which had taught him that a patron was "one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help" (Boswell 1906 [1791]: I 156-9). As this example perhaps reminds us,... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 pages
...Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found 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.74 - and the significant substitution when Johnson revised The Vanity... | |
 | Dean King - 2001 - 436 pages
...example of superb prose rhythm Samuel Johnson's famous rebuff of Lord 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? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had... | |
 | James Van Horn Melton - 2001 - 302 pages
...Samuel Johnson expressed his disdain for private patrons in 1754, when he bitterly defined a patron as "one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help."17 Thus the ideal of independence and autonomy became increasingly... | |
 | Evelyn Waugh - 2005 - 426 pages
...but were forced to sanction it owing to the persistent demands of the laity? ('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?') [Original draft: 'I could say much more about this, but I don't... | |
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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? 
