 | James Boswell - 1791 - 556 páginas
...it, for which he gave Johnfon ten guineas, who told me, " I might, perhaps, have accepted of lefs; but that Paul Whitehead had a little before got ten guineas for a poem; and I would not take lefs than Paul'Whitehead." J may here obferve, that Johnfon appeared to me to undervalue Paul Whitehead... | |
 | 1791 - 542 páginas
...Johnion ten guineas. " I might perhaps," faid Johnfon, " have accepted lefs ; but that Paul Whitehcad had a little before got ten guineas for a poem, and I would not take lets than Paul Whitehad." The merit oi this poem was immediately acknowledged by POPE, who the» filled... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 páginas
...conference, he bargained for the whole property of it, for which he gave Johnson ten guineas'; who told me, 'I might, perhaps, have accepted of less ; but that...poem and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead.' I may here observe, that Johnson appeared to me to undervalue Paul Whitehead upon every occasion when... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 páginas
...conference, he bargained for the whole property of it, for which he gave Johnson ten guineas ; who told me, " I might, perhaps, have accepted of less ; but that...; and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead." I may here observe, that Johnson appeared to me t6 undervalue Paul Whitehead upon every occasion when... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 páginas
...conference, he bargained for the whole property of it, for which he gave Johnson ten guineas'; who told me, 'I might, perhaps, have accepted of less ; but that...poem and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead.' I may here observe, that Johnson appeared to me to undervalue Paul Whitehead upon every occasion when... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 páginas
...ference, he bargained for the whole property of it, for which he gave Johnson ten guineas; who told me, " I might perhaps have accepted of less; but that Paul...; and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead." I may here observe, that Johnson appeared to me to undervalue Paul Whitehead upon every occasion when... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 páginas
...recollected afterwards when Dodsley offered to purchase his London, and conditioned for the same sum. " I might perhaps have accepted of less : but that Paul...upon all the venerable forms of the constitution, under the assumption of an universal depravity of manners. Pope had at this time taken liberties which,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 páginas
...recollected afterwards when Dodsley offered to purchase his London, and conditioned for the same sum. " I might perhaps have accepted of less : but that Paul...guineas for a poem : and I would not take less than Paul WhiteheadV In 1739, Whitehead published his more celebrated poem, entitled Manners, a satire not only-... | |
 | 1817 - 490 páginas
...place till the year the laugh and satire against that secret Pall mall, and an associate of Ralph, " I might, perhaps, have accepted of less, but that...upon all the venerable forms of the constitution, under the assumption of a universal depravity of planners. Pope had at this time taken liberties which,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 490 páginas
...Ralph, society, that the anniversary parade was and other minor humourists of the day " " I miglit, perhaps, have accepted of less, but that Paul Whitehead...upon all the venerable forms of the constitution, mi. !ii the assumption of a universal depravity of manners. Pope had at this time taken liberties which,... | |
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I might, perhaps, have accepted of less ; but that Paul Whitehead had a little before got ten guineas for a poem and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead. 
