 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...satires, cplauea, and odes would they cope. Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found...struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached the ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors,... | |
 | 1857 - 514 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... | |
 | 1857 - 574 pages
...more than a single extract from this spirited effusion of wounded pride and insulted feeling : — " 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 ? The notice which you have heen pleased to take of my labours,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 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...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 ;... | |
 | Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - 1858 - 362 pages
...not expect,8 for I never had a patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with 9 love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not...struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached the ground, encumbers him with help 1 The notice which you have been pleased to take of10 my labours,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1858 - 638 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...patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a rnim struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 490 pages
...his labours. It was this notice that produced Johnson's celebrated letter, in which he asks, — " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern...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
...ceased crawling on all-fours, and walk erect before that greatest of all Mœcenases — the public. 'Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pages
...utlren, epUUea, and odes would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, ray lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has... | |
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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... 
