| Roger D. Sell - 2000 - 372 страници
...out Johnson's experience of the noble lord's own politeness, which had taught him that a patron was "one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling...when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help" (Boswell 1906 [1791]: I 156-9). As this example perhaps reminds us, the less edifying operations of... | |
| Thomas Wolfe, Maxwell Evarts Perkins - 2000 - 390 страници
...that final and irreparable loss, to agree with Samuel Johnson when he said: "The shepherd in Vergil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks." You say in one of your letters that you never knew a soul with whom you felt that you were in such... | |
| Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 страници
...one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour'. Hence the barbed put-down: The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a...when he has reached ground encumbers him with help. 74 - and the significant substitution when Johnson revised The Vanity of Human Wishes in 1749: There... | |
| Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 страници
...one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour'. Hence the barbed put-down: The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a...and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help.74 - and the significant substitution when Johnson revised The Vanity of Human Wishes in 1749:... | |
| Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Robert C. Leitz, Jesse S. Crisler - 2001 - 644 страници
...of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a...struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached the ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had... | |
| Brian Hanley - 2001 - 308 страници
...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 страници
...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... | |
| H. J. Jackson - 2001 - 344 страници
...Human Wishes, 1:105). At the famous line in the Letter to Lord Chesterfield, "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks," he responds with vexation, "What does this mean? that Ld. Ch's heart was a Rock? — if so, to me it... | |
| Evelyn Waugh - 2005 - 426 страници
...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 страници
...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... | |
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