| Chambers's journal - 1859 - 432 páginas
...ceased crawling on all-fours, and walk erect before that greatest of all Mœcenases — the public. 'Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern...when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?' So wrote brave old Samuel Johnson to his courtly Mœcenas, in that celebrated letter which Carlyle... | |
| James Boswell - 1860 - 960 páginas
...*' 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...when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notici.' 3 which you have Leen pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 490 páginas
...and found him a native of the rocks. ' Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on .1 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 :... | |
| Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 376 páginas
...never had a patron before. ... Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man who is 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 ;... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 494 páginas
...found him a native of the rocks. ' la not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a nun 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 :... | |
| 1865 - 620 páginas
...grudges the notice till it is no longer needed; too often he " looks with unconcern on a man struggling in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help."f All honour, then, to Walter Savage Lander, who withheld not his hand from his brother. MAJRY... | |
| William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 páginas
...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...when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help t The notice you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it... | |
| William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 páginas
...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...when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it... | |
| James Whiteside - 1862 - 100 páginas
...author, or the scholar. " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help." It is believed Lord Chesterfield in his Letters to his Son, meant to describe Dr. Johnson under the... | |
| 1864 - 808 páginas
...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...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 ;... | |
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