[DOC] [TLE] Letter to Chesterfield - Wikipedia [PAR] The Letter to Chesterfield (February 1755) was Samuel Johnson's response to 
what some believed to be Lord Chesterfield's opportunistic endorsement of his A 
Dictionary of the English Language. Although Chesterfield was patron of the 
Proposal for the Dictionary, he made ... One of those to receive a request for 
patronage was Lord Chesterfield,... [DOC] [TLE] Samuel Johnson - Johnson's Dictionary - Today in Literature [PAR] On this day in 1755 Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language was ... 
a Tory, he defined "Whig" as "the name of a faction"; having been snubbed in his 
effort to obtain financial backing for his Dictionary from Lord Chesterfield, he 
defined ... to completing his labors, Johnson did receive an offer of help from m'
Lord,... [DOC] [TLE] Samuel Johnson's letter to Lord Chesterfield (February 1755) [PAR] Samuel Johnson's letter snubbing the belated efforts of help from his would be 
patron ... (7th February 1755). To The Right Honourable The Earl Of Chesterfield 
My Lord, ... my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your 
lordship. ... in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with 
help? [DOC] [TLE] English 2430: Readings - University of Wyoming [PAR] Sep 1, 2016 ... Samuel Johnson, Letter to Lord Chesterfield (1755) ...... Such late was Walsh,  
the Muse's Judge and Friend, ...... any one was near him, having for some time 
fixed his eyes upon the ...... and the Jail: In 1755, after Johnson had published his 
Dictionary, he ...... Indignant spurns the cottage from the green; [DOC] [TLE] An Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson - Wikisource ... [PAR] Mar 31, 2012 ... Late in life, if any man praised a book in his presence, he was sure to ask, "Did 
you read it through? ..... Johnson, having now abandoned all hopes of promoting 
his fortune ..... What lord Chesterfield thought of his visitor may be seen in a ..... 
The Dictionary was completed towards the end of 1754; and, Cave... [DOC] [TLE] plain text [PAR] Having gone through the rudiments of classic literature he returned to his father's 
..... never completed; a like design was offered to the publick, under the 
patronage of ... To remove this objection, the late Lord Gower was induced to 
write to a friend, ... The letter was printed in one of the magazines, and is as 
follows: SIR, Mr. [DOC] [TLE] Thomas Chatterton | Poetry Foundation [PAR] Of all English poets, Thomas Chatterton seemed to his great Romantic 
successors most ... with that of Chatterton, whose Rowley poems he learned of 
too late. ... and Lord Chesterfield over the patronage for Johnson's Dictionary (
1755), sets ... A letter from one Esther Saunders, written on 3 April 1770, offers to 
meet him in... [DOC] [TLE] The Letters of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield - JStor [PAR] A century has rolled away since Lord Chesterfield reach ed his highest point of ... 
the lessons which he taught, in his letters to his son, were those upon which he... [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "Life of Lord Chesterfield, an account of the ancestry ... [PAR] In the world of letters he incurred the animosity of Johnson, perhaps the only ..... 
Having completed his " cure " at that place, he returned to Calais, whence he ... 
When too late her neglectful spouse tried to win back the affection he had 
spurned. .... he hastened from Bretby to London " to offer my service to His 
Majesty, who... [DOC] [TLE] The Project Gutenberg eBook of Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson ... [PAR] He was too late to see his father again, for Zachary Macaulay had died while the 
son was on the ..... James Boswell (in the Dictionary of National Biography). ... 
Complete edition, by Lady Trevelyan, in eight volumes. ... The Life and Letters of 
Lord Macaulay, in two volumes; also two volumes in one. ... Letter to Chesterfield. [DOC]

Question: Having completed his dictionary, he spurned Lord Chesterfield's belated offer of patronage in a 1755 letter
Answer: Samuel Johnson