...to Lord Chesterfield. My sentiments exactly: "Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with concern on a man struggling for life in the water and when...reached ground encumbers him with help? The notice which i/ou have taken of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am...

...strongly desired Chesterfield's patronage of the Dictionary to boost sales. Johnson's letter asked: 'Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, once he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take...

...in Britain, after the Great Reform Act, the electorate was, roughly, 10 per cent of adult males, * 'Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern...when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?' (Samuel Johnson, Letter to Lord Chesterfield). 409 and in the United States every adult white male...

...Chesterfield's supposed belated redemption of his earlier offer of support for Johnson's dictionary project: "Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern...and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?"39 On useless bustle: "It is like getting on horseback in a ship."40 From Holmes, on his boyhood...

...workers, the crisis had a surreal, almost wartime air. It was now that the president showed his new spurs. "Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water," Dr. Johnson had famously quipped to Lord Chesterfield, who had failed to support the famous literary...

...Johnson gracefully outlines this naive aspect of pastoral when he remarks, "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks." For later poets, too, the pastoral realm appeared simple and blessedly ordinary, in contrast to the...