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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? "
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1853
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Johnson. Select works, ed. with intr. and notes by A. Milnes. Lives of ...

Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...encouragement, or one smile 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 native of the rocks. ' Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water,...
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Samuel Johnson, His Words and His Ways, what He Said, what He Did, and what ...

Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 pages
...encouragement, or one smile of favor. 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 native of the rocks. " Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water,...
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Moffatt's pupil teachers' course (ed. by T. Page). Candidates, 2nd (-4th) year

Moffatt and Paige - 1879 - 506 pages
...fully expressed, and introduced by co-relative conjunctions, are also generally separated by a comma. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks." " Believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour." " As the hart panteth after the water-brooks,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson

Robert Anderson - 696 pages
...encouragement, or one smile 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 native of the rocks. '< Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water,...
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The Legacy of Rome: A New Appraisal

Richard Jenkyns - 1992 - 526 pages
...naturally into his mind as a weapon to express the heartlessness of which he accused his neglectful patron: "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 unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and,...
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Samuel Johnson

Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 pages
...encouragement, or one smile 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 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...
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Life of Johnson

James Boswell - 1998 - 1540 pages
...encouragement, or one smile 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 native of the rocks.1 'Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the...
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To Loot My Life Clean: The Thomas Wolfe--Maxwell Perkins Correspondence

Thomas Wolfe, Maxwell Evarts Perkins - 2000 - 390 pages
...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...
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The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment

Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 pages
...'one Act of assistance, 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 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...
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Charles W. Chesnutt: Essays and Speeches: Essays and Speeches

Joseph R. McElrath, Jr., Robert C. Leitz, Jesse S. Crisler - 2001 - 644 pages
...encouragement, or one smile 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 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...
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