...one smile of favour. Such treatment 1 did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with love, and found...unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and wheu he has reached ground encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take...

...one smile: of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron hefore. " The shepherd in ' Virgil' grew at last acquainted with Love, and...rocks. " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with uneoneern on a man struggling for life iu the water, and when he luis reached ground, eneumhers him...

...and his wife, through friendship for their son—he would regret the bitter taunt to Chesterfield—" 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?"—and would have wished Moore to say of Lansdowne,...

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...celebrated Letter to Lord Chesterfield, says, in reference to the hollowness of patronage : " The shepherd, in Virgil, grew at last acquainted with Love ; and found him a native of the rocks." To what passage in Virgil does Johnson here refer, and what is the point intended to be conveyed ?...

...publication, without one " act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile " of favour. ... Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks " with unconcern...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...

...and its author well known, that nobleman appeared proud of the title. It was then that Johnson wrote: '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...

...two cock boaU to tow me Into harbor T" 2 The conqueror of the conqueror of the world. 55 The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. la not a patron, mv lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and,...

...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?...

...out Johnson's experience of the noble lord's own politeness, which had taught him that a patron was "one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help" (Boswell 1906 [1791]: I 156-9). As this example perhaps...