 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...  Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson - Page 54de Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 67 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 pages
...Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has jeached ground encumbers him with help ? The notice which...but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and can not enjoy it; till I am solitary, and can not impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 988 pages
...publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one emile of favor. . . . The notice which you have been pleased to take of...had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am inditlcrent, and cannot enjoy it till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 pages
...been early, hod been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am Indiffèrent, and cannot enjoy it tOI I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not wnnt it. . . . Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to anv favorer of learning,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1873 - 814 pages
...for life in the water, and then encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased t; take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind...but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and can not enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and can not impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.... | |
 | John Forster - 1873 - 806 pages
...encumbers him with help? The 1?5g "notice which you have — — 'been pleased to take of Xt-3I'my labours, had it been early, 'had been kind: but it has been...till I am indifferent, 'and cannot enjoy it; till 1 am 'solitary, and cannot impart it; 'till I am known, and do not 'want it. I hope it is no very 'cynical... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1958 - 312 pages
...his famous letter declining Lord Chesterfield's patronage of Johnson's dictionary. Said Dr. Johnson : "Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern...till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no... | |
 | J. P. T. Bury - 1960 - 810 pages
...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 it has been...am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it,. . .till I am known, and do not want it. It is characteristic that this remarkably early declaration of liberty should... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1967 - 1490 pages
...with help? He added : The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been earlier had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am known, and do not want it I hope it is no cynical asperity . . . to be unwilling that the public should... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 pages
...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 it has been delayed till I ahi indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known,... | |
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