...oyste 队 ( " El 吗 uent " ; sintendedtomean " si @ ent " · ) intended to mean "insults". ) (14)Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for lift in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with helpf (Samuel Johnson) (A patron...

...your pens' motif Burton has gone directly to Martial. 6. Johnson, Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield : 'Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a 62 Sir John Harington, Letters and Epigrams, ed. NE McClure (Philadelphia 1930) 100. Cf. his Nugae...

...strongly desired Chesterfield's patronage of the Dictionary to boost sales. Johnson's letter asked: 'Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, once he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take...

...workers, the crisis had a 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...

...amorous and sociable. Samuel Johnson gracefully outlines this naive aspect of pastoral when he remarks, "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks." For later poets, too, the pastoral realm appeared simple and blessedly ordinary, in contrast to the...

...of support, his supposed patron never provided "one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before" (BLJ, 1:261—62). Some pages later Boswell prints a letter from Johnson to Charles Burney of 8 April...