 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 life of Samuel Johnson - Էջ 99James Boswell - 1817Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1853 - 730 էջ
...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...cannot impart it, till I am known and do not want it." In Chesterfield, Johnson found a worthy type of a not very scanty class of patrons from whom the man... | |
 | People - 1845 - 346 էջ
...help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, would hare been kind : but it has been delayed till I am indifferent,...it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope, therefore, it is no very cynical asperity, not to confer obligations where no benefit has been received... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 624 էջ
...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...cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received ; or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - 332 էջ
...act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour', and of delaying his patronage 'till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till...cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.' Johnson brought the manner to unusual heights of marmorial dignity, but playful or ironic applications... | |
 | Ian Ousby - 1996 - 452 էջ
...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...had 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... | |
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...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...cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it." Charles Dickens caricatured Chesterfield as Sir John Chester in Barnaby Rudge (1871). The opinions... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 էջ
...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...till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am SOUtary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. SAMUEL JOHNSON, (1709-1784) British... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 էջ
...as a lethally accurate missile. "The notice which you have been pleased to take of my Labours . . . has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot...cannot impart it, till I am known and do not want it": it is the spat-out closing monosyllables that do the damage here, delivering a sting unheralded by... | |
 | James Boswell - 1998 - 1540 էջ
...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...till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till 1 am solitary, and cannot impart it ;* till I am known, and do not want it. 1 hope it is no very cynical... | |
 | Arnold Rogow - 1999 - 374 էջ
...the work not long after, Johnson wrote him bitterly: "Had [your notice] been early, [it would have been] kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent,...cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it." Johnson had addressed the "Plan" of the Dictionary to Chesterfield. Oxford Companion to English Literature,... | |
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