 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 588 pages
..." The Shepherd in 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...when he has reached ground encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early had been kind ; but... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pages
...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...when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind: but... | |
 | 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...when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help" (Boswell 1906 [1791]: I 156-9). As this example perhaps reminds us, the less edifying operations of... | |
 | Dean King - 2001 - 436 pages
...O'Brian quoted as an example of superb prose rhythm Samuel Johnson's famous rebuff of Lord Chesterfield: Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern...when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but... | |
 | Brian Hanley - 2001 - 308 pages
...and the literary marketplace complemented each other as sources of sustenance for aspiring authors. "Is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern...when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?" writes Samuel Johnson in his famous letter to Lord Chesterfield, dated 7 February 1755. "The notice... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 pages
...put-down: The shepherd in 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...when he has reached ground encumbers him with help. 74 - and the significant substitution when Johnson revised The Vanity of Human Wishes in 1749: There... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 pages
...put-down: The shepherd in 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...and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help.74 - and the significant substitution when Johnson revised The Vanity of Human Wishes in 1749:... | |
 | Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Robert C. Leitz, Jesse S. Crisler - 2001 - 644 pages
...before. The shepherd in 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...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 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...and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help."17 Thus the ideal of independence and autonomy became increasingly central to authorial identity... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
