 | Richard Dutton, Alison Gail Findlay, Richard Wilson - 2003 - 280 pages
...laws, yet by the eighteenth century Dr Johnson could complain to Lord Chesterfield that a patron was 'one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling...and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help'.20 Johnson's antipathy notwithstanding, patronage was, for seventeenth-century writers, a fundamental... | |
 | Judith Schneid Lewis - 2003 - 272 pages
...sincerity. "Is not a patron, my Lord," he had written to Lord Chesterfield, the doyen of politeness, "one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling...and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?"11" The patronage system, by reducing men to positions of dependence and, consequently, of effeminacy,... | |
 | 辜正坤 - 2003 - 580 pages
...smile of favour'201. 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'2". Is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the... | |
 | Carolyn Christensen Nelson - 2004 - 400 pages
...position of women — unless, indeed, we adopt Dr. Johnson's7 famous definition of the word "patron": "Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern...struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached the ground, encumbers him with help?" A good many of the hundred and four hardly preserved an attitude... | |
 | 张秀国 - 2005 - 288 pages
...oyste 队 ( " El 吗 uent " ; sintendedtomean " si @ ent " · ) intended to mean "insults". ) (14)Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for lift in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with helpf (Samuel Johnson) (A patron... | |
 | Niall Rudd - 2005 - 232 pages
...your pens' motif Burton has gone directly to Martial. 6. Johnson, Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield : 'Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a 62 Sir John Harington, Letters and Epigrams, ed. NE McClure (Philadelphia 1930) 100. Cf. his Nugae... | |
 | Simon White, John Goodridge, Bridget Keegan - 2006 - 324 pages
...Opus 7 (1931). The Vaccine Rose: Patronage, Pastoralism, and Public Health Tim Fulford and Debbie Lee IS NOT A PATRON, MY LORD, ONE WHO LOOKS WITH UNconcern...when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? ... I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received,... | |
 | Dominic Head - 2006 - 1241 pages
...work on its publication in 1755. Johnson expressed his anger in a famous letter of 7 February 1755: Ts not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern...and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help7 The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind;... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 2006 - 608 pages
...shall fight in the hills." Here is a similar example from Samuel Johnson's letter to Chesterfield: The notice which you have been pleased to take of...been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed until I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known,... | |
 | Paul Whitfield White, Suzanne R. Westfall - 2006 - 340 pages
...laws, yet by the eighteenth century Dr. Johnson could complain to Lord Chesterfield that a patron was "one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling...and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help."29 Even though Samuel Johnson undervalued patronage, Ben Jonson made a very fine living as the... | |
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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... 
