 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 744 pages
...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...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pages
...pecuniary obligation, however inconsiderable. -— C. "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 un» concern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers... | |
 | Morning call - 1850 - 618 pages
...offer of patronage when it was no longer needed. We recall to mind his indignant expressions — " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a person while he is struggling in the water, and when he has reached the shore, encumbers him with help?"... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The Shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. " Is not...struggling for life. in the water, and when he has leached ground encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Is not л rns me — I govern not it. He was one evening sitting ground, encumbers him with help ! The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had... | |
 | University magazine - 1851 - 822 pages
...the definition of the gruff moralist, in his celebrated letter to Lord Chesterfield — " A patron is one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help." Sir Walter Scott was not one of these. His kind heart and active benevolence... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. " Is not a patron, my lord, one who can look with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and then encumbers him with help... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 pages
...not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The Shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. " Is not...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... | |
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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... 
