 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 ページ
...before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him я native of the rocks. 844 ray labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and... | |
 | 1844 - 602 ページ
...Chesterfield ; and in particular that they would ponder the following question of the great Lexicographer: " Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern...man struggling for life in the water, and, when he Ь.ч ; reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 ページ
...before. 21 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...but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 ページ
...put-down: 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...and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help.74 - and the significant substitution when Johnson revised The Vanity of Human Wishes in 1749:... | |
 | Louisa May Alcott - 2001 - 628 ページ
...had nearly completed his Dictionary: Johnson wrote a sharp letter of rebuttal to Chesterfield, saying "The notice which you have been pleased to take of...but it has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it, till I am solitary and cannot impart it, till I am known and do not want it" (Redford... | |
 | Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Robert C. Leitz, Jesse S. Crisler - 2001 - 644 ページ
...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...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... | |
 | James Van Horn Melton - 2001 - 302 ページ
...Samuel Johnson expressed his disdain for private patrons in 1754, when he bitterly defined a patron as "one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling...and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help."17 Thus the ideal of independence and autonomy became increasingly central to authorial identity... | |
 | Evelyn Waugh - 2005 - 426 ページ
...didn't like the book, but were forced to sanction it owing to the persistent demands of the laity? ('Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern...he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?') [Original draft: 'I could say much more about this, but I don't think I will.'] From this point of... | |
 | David Finkelstein, Alistair McCleery - 2002 - 404 ページ
...praise the writer's work in fashionable society. Johnson's famous denunciation of Lord Chesterfield - 'Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern...when he has reached ground encumbers him with help' — complained not about the noble lord's failure to fund the Dictionary (which was financed, after... | |
 | 辜正坤 - 2003 - 580 ページ
...before. The Shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a Native of the Rocks'2". Is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern...and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?'"1 The notice which you have been pleased to take of my Labours,'23' had it been early, (2j"had... | |
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