 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...publication, without one act of assistance, one ' word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. ... Is ' not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern...notice ' which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had ' it been early, had been kind : but it has been delayed ' till I am indifferent, and... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 744 pages
...publication, without one act of assistance, one ' word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. ... Is ' not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern...notice ' which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had ' it been early, had been kind : but it has been delayed ' till I am indifferent, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pages
...however inconsiderable. -— C. "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 un» concern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers... | |
 | Norma Clarke - 2001 - 282 pages
...did not expect, for I never had a Patron before . . The letter continued in tones of heavy sarcasm: Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern...The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot... | |
 | 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...The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 pages
...favour'. Hence the barbed 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,...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
...favour'. Hence the barbed 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,...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
...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. Is not a patron, my Lord,...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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
