 | John Forster - 1848 - 744 pàgines
...publication, without one act of assistance, one ' word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. ... Is ' not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern...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 ; till... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pàgines
...publication, without one act of assistance, one ' word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. ... Is ' not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern...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 ; till... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pàgines
...publication, without one act of assistance, one ' word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. ... Is ' not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern...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 ; till... | |
 | Brian Hanley - 2001 - 308 pàgines
...and the literary marketplace complemented each other as sources of sustenance for aspiring authors. "Is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern...when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?" writes Samuel Johnson in his famous letter to Lord Chesterfield, dated 7 February 1755. "The notice... | |
 | James Van Horn Melton - 2001 - 302 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Louisa May Alcott - 2001 - 628 pàgines
...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 my Labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it, till I am... | |
 | Evelyn Waugh - 2005 - 426 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Richard Dutton, Alison Gail Findlay, Richard Wilson - 2003 - 280 pàgines
...laws, yet by the eighteenth century Dr Johnson could complain to Lord Chesterfield that a patron was 'one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling...and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help'.20 Johnson's antipathy notwithstanding, patronage was, for seventeenth-century writers, a fundamental... | |
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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... 
