 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 pages
...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 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...confesses that he does not see the object of this allusion; if some more ingenious " 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, hart... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...one act of assistance, one ' word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. ... 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... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 1294 pages
...one act of assistance, one ' word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. ... 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... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...one act of assistance, one ' word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. ... 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...Virgil grew at last acquaintcd with Lovct and found him a native of the rocks.* ** Is not a patron, my in the isle of Sky, in the house of Miss Flora Macdonald, ground, encumbers him with help? The notice" which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pages
...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 him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had... | |
 | University magazine - 1851 - 822 pages
...the definition of the gruff moralist, in his celebrated letter to Lord Chesterfield — " A patron is one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help." Sir Walter Scott was not one of these. His kind heart and active benevolence... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...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 on a man struggling for life. in the water, and when he has leached ground encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. " Is not a patron, my lord, one who can look then encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it... | |
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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? 
