 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...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Página 3231864Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 páginas
...it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till 1 am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it j till I am solitary, and 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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 páginas
...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 solitary, and cannot impart it4; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 744 páginas
...but it has been delayed ' till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am 1759 TO 1767.] 189 ' solitary, and 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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 páginas
...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...cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer to Lard ChtslerßeU Payment Give the laborer... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - 2000 - 332 páginas
...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... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 páginas
...lethally accurate missile. "The notice which you have been pleased to take of my Labours . . . has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy...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... | |
 | 298 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received,... | |
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