Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 99
... hundred should be sold of the first edition : and again , five pounds after the sale of the same number of the second edition : and another five pounds after the same sale of the third . None of the three editions were to be extended ...
... hundred should be sold of the first edition : and again , five pounds after the sale of the same number of the second edition : and another five pounds after the same sale of the third . None of the three editions were to be extended ...
Page 103
... hundred years ago , I am far from hoping to discover . Certainly , he who in two years sells thirteen hundred copies of a volume in quarto , bought for two payments of five pounds each , has no reason to repent his purchase . When ...
... hundred years ago , I am far from hoping to discover . Certainly , he who in two years sells thirteen hundred copies of a volume in quarto , bought for two payments of five pounds each , has no reason to repent his purchase . When ...
Page 284
... hundred verses , more or less , are already in the said Jacob Tonson's possession . And I do hereby farther promise , and engage myself , to make up the said sum of two hundred and fifty guineas three hundred pounds sterling to the said ...
... hundred verses , more or less , are already in the said Jacob Tonson's possession . And I do hereby farther promise , and engage myself , to make up the said sum of two hundred and fifty guineas three hundred pounds sterling to the said ...
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