 | Evelyn Waugh - 2005 - 426 pages
...didn't like the book, 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...he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?') [Original draft: 'I could say much more about this, but I don't think I will.'] From this point of... | |
 | Rosemary Ashton - 2002 - 584 pages
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 | David Finkelstein, Alistair McCleery - 2002 - 404 pages
...praise the writer's work in fashionable society. Johnson's famous denunciation of Lord Chesterfield - 'Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern...when he has reached ground encumbers him with help' — complained not about the noble lord's failure to fund the Dictionary (which was financed, after... | |
 | Ralph Russell - 2001 - 356 pages
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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... 
