 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 it been early, had been kind; but...  The Philology of the English Tongue - Pagina 489di John Earle - 1880 - 700 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Xiuguo Zhang - 2005 - 268 pagine
...repetition to express his contempt for and strong indignation at Lord Chesterfield's hypocrisy; (14) The notice which you have been pleased to take of...till I am known, and do not want it. (Samuel Johnson) Parallelism is one of the most frequently used of all English rhetorical devices. Anyone who has learnt... | |
 | Niall Rudd - 2005 - 228 pagine
...269. man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, cumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of...been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed until I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it, till I am solitary and cannot impart it, till I am known... | |
 | Edward Andrew - 2006 - 284 pagine
...on a man struggling for life in the water, and, once he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of...cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or... | |
 | Duane Robert Pierson - 2006 - 68 pagine
...the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? The notice which i/ou have taken of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but...cannot impart it, till I am known and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity to confess obligation where no benefit has been received, or... | |
 | Fred R. Shapiro, Associate Librarian and Lecturer in Legal Research Fred R Shapiro - 2006 - 1067 pagine
...reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, r is thereby plunged into a kind of idleness— he...in short, serious: instead of functioning himself, Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (letter to Lord Chesterfield, 7 Feb. 1755)... | |
 | Dominic Head - 2006 - 1241 pagine
...on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help7 The notice which you have been pleased to take of...been kind; but it has been delayed . . . till I am known and do not want it.' Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith) 1874-1936 Poet, novelist, writer of DETECTIVE... | |
 | Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin - 2006 - 553 pagine
...shall fight in the hills." Here is a similar example from Samuel Johnson's letter to Chesterfield: The notice which you have been pleased to take of...been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed until I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known,... | |
 | James O. Freedman - 2007 - 339 pagine
...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...and cannot enjoy it, till I am solitary and cannot import it, till I am known and do not want it." Bate especially admired the paradoxical reversals that... | |
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