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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? "
Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical Illustrative of the Rambler ... - Page 336
by Nathan Drake - 1809
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Sketches of English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Present Century

Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 1852 - 458 pages
...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 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...
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Pitman's Journal of Commercial Education, Volume 11

1852 - 436 pages
...English language. Everyone will remember its concluding sentences, where he asks, " 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...
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The Modern British Essayists: Carlyle, Thomas. Critical and miscellaneous essays

English essays - 1852 - 590 pages
...Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. "Is not a patron, 015* 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...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People, Volume 1

Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...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 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...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 580 pages
...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 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 labors, had it...
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The National Magazine, Volume 2

Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 594 pages
...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 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 labors, had it...
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Samuel Johnson

Thomas Carlyle - 1853 - 130 pages
...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 unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help P The . notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had...
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The Irish Quarterly Review, Volume 3, Part 1

Ireland - 1853 - 528 pages
...friendship for their son—he would regret the bitter taunt to Chesterfield—" 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?"—and would have wished Moore to say of Lansdowne, as he himself...
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Works, Including His Letters to His Son, &c: To which is Prefixed an ...

Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
...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 unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and wheu he has reached ground encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take...
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Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, Volume 59

1882 - 858 pages
...known, that nobleman appeared proud of the title. It was then that Johnson wrote: '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...
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