 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...him a native of the rocks. Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with Hnconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which yon have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind : but it has been delayed... | |
 | Stephen Jones - 1812 - 50 pages
...Johnson also well expressed it, like the conduct of " one who looks -with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help." So, Mr. Jones was left to spend hours, and days, and weeks, in the search after particulars, to which... | |
 | Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...a native of the rocks. " 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 : but it has been delayed till I am... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...a native of the rocks. " 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 : but it has been delayed till I am... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1816 - 154 pages
...a native of the rocks. '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; but it has been delayed till I am... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...patron before. " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for his 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, would have been kind: but it lias been delayed till... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...a native of the rocks. " 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 yon have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 368 pages
...a native of the rocks. " 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 ; but it has been delayed till I am... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 388 pages
...could not properly find a place in a letter of the kind that this was." unconcern on a wan 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 ; but it has been delayed till I am... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...a native of the rocks. " 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 ; but it has been delayed till I am... | |
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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... 
