 | 1859 - 650 pagine
...neglect. He wrote his celebrated letter to Lord Chesterfield, and renounced a patron who ' could look with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he had reached ground, encumbered him with help.' Warburton, who was personally unknown to Johnson, sent... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 pagine
...neglect. He wrote his celebrated letter to Lord Chesterfield, and renounced a patron who ' could look with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he had reached ground, encumbered him with help.' Warburton, who was personally unknown' to Johnson, sent... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 584 pagine
...neglect. He wrote his celebrated letter to Lord Chesterfield, and renounced a patron who ' could look with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he had reached ground, encumbered him with help.' Warburton, who was personally unknown to Johnson, sent... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 pagine
...neglect. He wrote his celebrated letter to Lord Chesterfield, and renounced a patron who ' could look with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he had reached ground, encumbered him with help.' Warburton, who was personally unknown' to Johnson, sent... | |
 | Peter Gay - 1999 - 204 pagine
...Chesterfield, Samuel Johnson issued a resounding declaration of independence: "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?" Two years later, in his Dictionary of the English Language, Johnson,... | |
 | Norma Clarke - 2001 - 282 pagine
...never had a Patron before . . The letter continued in tones of heavy sarcasm: 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 my labours, had... | |
 | Roger D. Sell - 2000 - 372 pagine
...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 reminds us,... | |
 | Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Robert C. Leitz, Jesse S. Crisler - 2001 - 644 pagine
...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 on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached the ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it... | |
 | Dean King - 2001 - 436 pagine
...superb prose rhythm Samuel Johnson's famous rebuff of Lord 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? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 pagine
...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 on a Man 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... | |
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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? 
