 | University magazine - 1851 - 822 oldal
...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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 oldal
...favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a 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 can look with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and then encumbers him with help... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 oldal
...of encouragement, or one smile of favour. 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. The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but... | |
 | Dean King - 2001 - 436 oldal
...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...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... | |
 | James Van Horn Melton - 2001 - 302 oldal
...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...life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help."17 Thus the ideal of independence and autonomy became increasingly central... | |
 | H. J. Jackson - 2001 - 344 oldal
...verse (eg, The Vanity of Human Wishes, 1:105). At the famous line in the Letter to Lord Chesterfield, "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks," he responds with vexation, "What does this mean? that Ld. Ch's heart was a Rock? — if so, to me it... | |
 | Evelyn Waugh - 2005 - 426 oldal
...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...life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?') [Original draft: 'I could say much more about this, but I don't think I... | |
 | David Finkelstein, Alistair McCleery - 2002 - 404 oldal
...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...Life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help' — complained not about the noble lord's failure to fund the Dictionary (which... | |
 | John Crowley - 2002 - 564 oldal
...brown and round, and when he asked her what they were, she said "Years." BROTHER NORTH-WIND'S SECRET The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him to be a native of the rocks. —Johnson Aer John Drinkwater's death in 1920, Violet, unable to bear... | |
 | Judith Schneid Lewis - 2003 - 272 oldal
...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...life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?"11" The patronage system, by reducing men to positions of dependence and,... | |
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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... 
