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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... "
The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ... - Page 47
by Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 394 pages
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...one smile of favor. Such treatment 1 did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The Shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found...struggling for life. in the water, and when he has leached ground encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors,...
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The Dublin university magazine

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,...
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The English Language in Its Elements and Forms: With a History of Its Origin ...

William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew 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...
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Cyclopedia of English Literature: a Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, fur I never had a patron before. The shepherd and standing motionless in the middle of the hubbub, with their eye» л patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last 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...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 568 pages
...publication, without one act of assistance/)one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found...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...
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The Modern British Essayists: Carlyle, Thomas. Critical and miscellaneous essays

1852 - 590 pages
...publication, without one act of assistance.^ one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and 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...
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The National Magazine, Volume 2

Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 pages
...one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The shepherd in ' Virgil' grew at last acquainted with Love, and...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...
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Samuel Johnson

Thomas Carlyle - 1853 - 130 pages
...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 Love, and found...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...
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Works, Including His Letters to His Son, &c: To which is Prefixed an ...

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
...one smile of favour. Such treatment 1 did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with love, and found...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...
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