 | Samuel Kirkham - 1842 - 386 pages
...Virgil grew, at last, acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron,0 my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling...when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help 1 The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 620 pages
...before. "The Shepherd in Virgil grew acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. "le not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a mnn struggling for life in the water, and, when he 1ms reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 pages
...patron before. "The Shepherd in Virgil grew acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. "Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern...indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to... | |
 | 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... | |
 | David Finkelstein, Alistair McCleery - 2002 - 404 pages
...praise the writer's work in fashionable society. Johnson's famous denunciation of Lord Chesterfield - 'Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern...when he has reached ground encumbers him with help' — complained not about the noble lord's failure to fund the Dictionary (which was financed, after... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 辜正坤 - 2003 - 580 pages
...before. The Shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a Native of the Rocks'2". Is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern...and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?'"1 The notice which you have been pleased to take of my Labours,'23' had it been early, (2j"had... | |
 | Richard Dutton, Alison Gail Findlay, Richard Wilson - 2003 - 280 pages
...laws, yet by the eighteenth century Dr Johnson could complain to Lord Chesterfield that a patron was 'one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling...and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help'.20 Johnson's antipathy notwithstanding, patronage was, for seventeenth-century writers, a fundamental... | |
 | Judith Schneid Lewis - 2003 - 272 pages
...sincerity. "Is not a patron, my Lord," he had written to Lord Chesterfield, the doyen of politeness, "one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling...and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?"11" The patronage system, by reducing men to positions of dependence and, consequently, of effeminacy,... | |
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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 ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind... 
