Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 99
... pounds , with a stipulation to receive five pounds more when thirteen 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 ...
... pounds , with a stipulation to receive five pounds more when thirteen 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 ...
Page 107
... pounds by entrusting it to a scrivener ; and that , in the general depredation upon the Church , he had grasped an estate of about sixty pounds a year belonging to Westminster- Abbey , which , like other sharers of the plunder of rebel ...
... pounds by entrusting it to a scrivener ; and that , in the general depredation upon the Church , he had grasped an estate of about sixty pounds a year belonging to Westminster- Abbey , which , like other sharers of the plunder of rebel ...
Page 411
Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill. stated at one and twenty pounds , or three pounds ten shillings a day : this , at a halfpenny a paper , will give sixteen hundred and eighty for the daily number . This sale is not great ; yet ...
Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill. stated at one and twenty pounds , or three pounds ten shillings a day : this , at a halfpenny a paper , will give sixteen hundred and eighty for the daily number . This sale is not great ; yet ...
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