 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 been early had been kind...  The Quarterly Review - Page 193redigeeritud poolt - 1859Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 lehte
...encumbers him with help * The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been earl}', had been kind : but it has been delayed till I am...cannot impart it; till I am known and do not want it. I hope, it is no very cynical asperity, not to confess obligations, where no benefit has been received,... | |
 | People - 1845 - 346 lehte
...help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, would hare been kind : but it has been delayed till I am indifferent,...impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope, therefore, it is no very cynical asperity, not to confer obligations where no benefit has been... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 lehte
...notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, hart it been early*, had been kind ; but'it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it5; till 1 am known, and do not want it. 1 hope it is no very cynical asperity, not to confess obligations... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 1294 lehte
...encumbers him with help ? The notice ' which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had ' it been early, had been kind : but it has been delayed...impart it ; till I am known, and do ' not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to ' confess obligations where no benefit has been received... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - 332 lehte
...act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour', and of delaying his patronage 'till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till...cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.' Johnson brought the manner to unusual heights of marmorial dignity, but playful or ironic applications... | |
 | Ian Ousby - 1996 - 452 lehte
...ground, encumbers him with help? 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 known and do not want it.' Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith) 1874-1936 Poet, novelist, writer of DETECTIVE... | |
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...ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed...cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it." Charles Dickens caricatured Chesterfield as Sir John Chester in Barnaby Rudge (1871). The opinions... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 lehte
...as a lethally accurate missile. "The notice which you have been pleased to take of my Labours . . . has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot...cannot impart it, till I am known and do not want it": it is the spat-out closing monosyllables that do the damage here, delivering a sting unheralded by... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 lehte
...ground, encumbers him with help? 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 SOUtary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. SAMUEL JOHNSON, (1709-1784) British... | |
 | James Boswell - 1998 - 1540 lehte
...ground, encumbers him with help? 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 1 am solitary, and cannot impart it ;* till I am known, and do not want it. 1 hope it is no very cynical... | |
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