...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 of10 my labours, had it been early, had been kind;11 but it has been delayed till12 I am indifferent,...

...excess than the deficiency of sympathy. A patron, we know, in Dr. Johnson's time, was " one who looked with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he had reached ground, encumbered him with help." The public, we are told, has taken the place of patron...

...which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. Is not a patron 'They are all gone' They are all gone into the world...lingering here; Their very memory is fair and brig 5191 The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow. 5192 Pride is seldom delicate: it...

...Chesterfield, a wouldbe patron of Johnson's, he rejected Chesterfield's assistance, comparing a patron to "one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling...when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help." 46 Johnson held that literary commercialization decentralized the production and sale of knowledge...

...in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. 2172 Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for...when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? 2173 Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. 2174 The Rambler No place affords...

...much-quoted letter to Lord Chesterfield, Samuel Johnson issued a resounding declaration of independence: "Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern...when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?" Two years later, in his Dictionary of the English Language, Johnson, his experience with noblemen guiding...

...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...when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help" (Boswell 1906 [1791]: I 156-9). As this example perhaps reminds us, the less edifying operations of...

...Hence the barbed 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...when he has reached ground encumbers him with help. 74 - and the significant substitution when Johnson revised The Vanity of Human Wishes in 1749: There...

...Hence the barbed 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...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:...

...never had a patron 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...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...