 | samuel johnson - 1781 - 396 pages
...them all fubjcribe ; for, " fays he, the author _/£#// not begin to " print till' / have a thoufand guineas " for him." About this time it is likely that...good-natured and officious, procured an interview between thefe angry rivals, which ended in aggravated malevolence. On this occafion, if the reports be true,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 418 pages
...have them all fubfcribe ; for,. " fays he, the authoF^a// not begin to* " print till / have a thoufand guineas" for him." About this time it is likely that...good-natured and officious,. procured an interview between thefe angry. rivals, which ended in aggravated malevolence. On this occafion, if the reports be true,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 522 pages
..." them all fubfcribe ; for, fays he, the author " Jhall not begin to print till / have a thou" fand guineas for him." About this time it is likely that...good-natured and officious, procured an interview between thefe angry rivals, which ended in aggravated malevolence. On this occafion, if the reports be true,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
..." them allfubfcribe ; for, fays he, the author " Jhall not begin to print till / have a thou" fand guineas for him." About this time it is likely that...good-natured and officious, procured an interview between thefe angry rivals, which ended in aggravated malevolence. On this occafion, if the reports be true,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...*' them all fubfcribe ; for, fays he, the author " foall not begin to print till / have a thou" fand guineas for him." About this time it is likely that...was, with all his political fury, good-natured and and officious, procured an interview between thefe angry rivals, which ended in aggravated malevolence.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 504 pages
...them alljubfcribe ; for, lays he, the author 'f Jhall not begin to print till I have a thou?" fand guineas for him." About this time it is likely that...who was, with all his political fury, -good-natured v •'•"• • i 5 and and officious, procured an interview-between thefe angry rivals, which ended... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...have them all fub" fcribe; for, fays he, the author jhall not begin to print ** till 7 have a thoufand guineas for him." About this time it is likely that...good-natured and officious, procured an interview between thefe angry rivals, which «snded in aggravated malevolence. On this occafton, if fhe reports be true.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...have them all fub*f fcribe; for, fays he, the author jhallnot begin to print '* till / have a thoufand guineas for him." About this time it is likely that...was, with all his political fury, good-natured and oHicious, procured an interview between thefe angry rivals, which ended in aggravated malevolence.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 676 pages
...have them all fub" fcribe ; for, fays he, the author Jhall not begin to print " till / have a thoufand guineas for him." About this time it is likely that Steele, who was, with all his political fur}', good-natured and officious, procured an interview between thefe angry rivals, which ended in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...requests. " Then he instructed-a young nobleman that the best poet in £nglandms " Mr. Pope (a papist), vho had begun a translation of Homer into English " verse, for which he must have /Jiem att jvlscribt; for, says be, the author " shall not begin to print till / hive a thousand guineas... | |
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Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. "For," says he, "the author shall not begin to print till I... 
