 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 pages
...favour. "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...The notice which you have been pleased to take of my laboars, had it been early, had been kind : but it has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot... | |
 | 1857 - 514 pages
...his wife, through friendship for their son — he would regret the bitter taunt to Chesterfield — " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern...when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?" — and would have wished Moore to say of Lansdowne, as he himself said of poor, mad, open-hearted... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...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...when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help t The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been eirlv, had been kind ;... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1858 - 638 pages
...found him a native of the rocks. " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a rnim struggling for life in the water, and when he has...The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and caunot... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Scottish essays - 1859 - 620 pages
...favour. "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...which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind : but it has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1859 - 490 pages
...his labours. It was this notice that produced Johnson's celebrated letter, in which he asks, — " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern...reached ground encumbers him with help ! The notice you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early had been kind, but it has been delayed... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1859 - 432 pages
...ceased crawling on all-fours, and walk erect before that greatest of all Mœcenases — the public. 'Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern...when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?' So wrote brave old Samuel Johnson to his courtly Mœcenas, in that celebrated letter which Carlyle... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...*' The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.* " ing to contribute what I could towards the continuation...I. Sir Allan went on ; " Refuse to send rum to me, notici.' 3 which you have Leen pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 490 pages
...and found him a native of the rocks. ' Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on .1 man struggling for life in the water, and when he...which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind : but it has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it;... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 376 pages
...never had a patron before. ... Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man who is struggling for life in the water, and, when he has...which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it... | |
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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... 
