 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; but it has been...  Boswell's Life of Johnson - Stran 162avtor: James Boswell - 1904Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Charles Knight - 1865 - 394 strani
...disappointment in his early career: " Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man straggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?" Dodsley spoke with the feelings of an old bookseller when he said that he was sorry Johnson had written... | |
 | Gems - 1866 - 168 strani
...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...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 confess obligations... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 strani
...vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate. Louis XIV of France (1638-1715) The notice which you have been pleased to take of...enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. Payment Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer... | |
 | Louisa May Alcott - 1989 - 548 strani
...rebuttal on this occasion, which included: 'The notice you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been...enjoy it, till I am solitary and cannot impart it, till I am known and do not want it." 2 I'ma 'gentleman growed' as Peggotty said of Dai id: Peggotty... | |
 | Cheryl Turner - 1992 - 276 strani
...outcome of such petitions for favour could be less than expected. Johnson's definition of a patron as ‘one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling...when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help' (Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield 1755, in Boswell 1799 [1927]: vol. 1, 174), was prompted by the... | |
 | Catherine Gallagher - 1994 - 368 strani
...struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The noticewhich you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it...has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot political publications, not only supporting friendly writers but also sometimes buying the silence... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - 332 strani
...act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour', and of delaying his patronage ‘till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.' Johnson brought the manner to unusual heights of marmorial dignity,... | |
 | Peter Gay - 1996 - 756 strani
...a nobleman), he uttered what his predecessors had kept to themselves: a patron, he wrote, was a man who “looks with unconcern on a man struggling for...he has reached ground, encumbers him with help.” 6 The patron, callous to the needy and parasitic on the successful, was losing his social utility.... | |
 | Joan G. Nagle - 1995 - 396 strani
...reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been...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 confess obligations... | |
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