...to Lord Chesterfield. My sentiments exactly: "Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with concern on a man struggling for life in 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,...

...the Great Reform Act, the electorate was, roughly, 10 per cent of adult males, * '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?' (Samuel Johnson, Letter to Lord Chesterfield). 409 and in the United...

...belated redemption of his earlier offer of support for Johnson's dictionary project: "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?"39 On useless bustle: "It is like getting on horseback in a ship."40...

...wrote except for money." I took delight in his blunt rebuke 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 it...

...surreal, almost wartime air. It was now that the president showed his new spurs. "Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water," Dr. Johnson had famously quipped to Lord Chesterfield, who had failed to support the famous literary...