 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 ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page xivby Samuel Johnson - 1840Full view - About this book
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...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 reached the ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours,... | |
 | Stephen Jones - 1812 - 50 pages
...suffer" him to repeat the application. It was, as Johnson also well expressed it, like the conduct of " one who looks -with unconcern on a man struggling...when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help." So, Mr. Jones was left to spend hours, and days, and weeks, in the search after particulars, to which... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...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. Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with Hnconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...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...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 enjoy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 506 pages
...complain, and have brought it at last to the " verge of publication, vyithout one act of as" sistance, one word of encouragement, or one " smile of favour....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 enjoy... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 pages
...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...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 enjoy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 154 pages
...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...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 enjoy it;... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...patron before. " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for his life in the water, and when he has reached ground,...which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, would have been kind: but it lias been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...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...ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which yon have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 pages
...no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. " Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward room, or...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 enjoy... | |
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