...to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour....I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. 1 Papers, Articles. — 2 That regard for vhich I saw the world contending, Cet inttfret Uont je voyais...

...of his Dictionary. brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour....did not expect, for I never had a patron before." Boswell's Life of Johnson. Engraved by CW Sharp*. On canvas, 3 ft. 5| in. h. by 4 ft. 6£ in. w. Exhibited...

...course, Dr. Johnson's. In a letter to Lord Chesterfield, written in February 1755, Dr. Johnson asked: "Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern...and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with his help?"1 There is no doubt that Dr. Johnson's quip was also meant as a reproach. Nowadays, the definition...

...on the Dictionary, and he did not need his recommendation to sell it now that the work was finished. "Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern...and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?"3 This became the definitive declaration of independence from literary patronage. The success...

...a nobleman), he uttered what his predecessors had kept to themselves: a patron, he wrote, was a man who "looks with unconcern on a man struggling for...and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help."6 The patron, callous to the needy and parasitic on the successful, was losing his social utility....

...deserves. Mrs. Leo Hunter was a patron of sorts, who might be taken as representative of some communities. "Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern...struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached the ground, encumbers him with help?" Thus Dr. Johnson to my lord Chesterfield, in the greatest snub...

...complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance,1 one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour....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...

...complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour....not expect, for I never had a Patron before . . The letter continued in tones of heavy sarcasm: Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern...

...to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour....struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached the ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had...

...'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...and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help.74 - and the significant substitution when Johnson revised The Vanity of Human Wishes in 1749:...