 | Norma Clarke - 2001 - 282 páginas
...did not expect, for I never had a Patron before . . The letter continued in tones of heavy sarcasm: Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern...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... | |
 | 1980 - 784 páginas
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 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 páginas
...'one Act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour'. Hence the barbed put-down: The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with...struggling for Life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help. 74 - and the significant substitution when Johnson revised The Vanity... | |
 | Dean King - 2001 - 436 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | 2001 - 838 páginas
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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? 
