 | SAMUEL JOHNSON - 1781 - 254 pages
..." faid, It would either take greatly, or " be damned confoundedly. — We were " all, at the firft night of it, in great '* uncertainty of the event ; till we were " very much encouraged by overhear'* ing the duke of Argyle, who fat in ** the next box to us, fay, " It will do — '* it muft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 248 pages
..." faid, It would either take greatly, or " be damned confoundedly. — We were " all, at the firft night of it, in great " uncertainty of the event ; till we were " very much encouraged by overhear" ing the duke of Argyle, who fat in '* the next fcdi:'to us, fay, " It will do — ft it muft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 474 pages
...** faid, It would either take greatly, or be " damned confoundedly.-— We were all, at ** the firft night of it, in great uncertainty ** of the event; till we were very much en" couraged by overhearing the duke of Ar" gyle, who fat in the next box to us$ fay^ '* * It will... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 602 pages
..." faid, It would either take greatly, or be ** damned confoundedly. — We were all, at " the firft night of it, in great uncertainty " of the event; till we were very much en** couraged by overhearing the duke of Ar** gyle, who fat in the next box to Us, fay, '* *It will... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 332 pages
...faid, " It would either take greatly, or be damned '' confoundedly. — We were all, at the firft " night of it, in great uncertainty of the event; " till we were very much encouraged by ovcr" hearing the duke of Argyle, who fat in the " next box to us, fay, 'It will do — it muft " do... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Poets, English - 1791 - 490 pages
...faid, It " .would either take greatly, or be damned " confoundedly. — We were all, at the firft *' night of it, in great uncertainty of the event ; '? till we were very much encouraged by " overhearing the duke of Argyle, who fat " in. the next box to us, fay, * It will do — it ** muft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...over, faid, It would either take greatly, or be *' damned confoundedly.—We were all, at the firft " night of it, in great uncertainty of the event; till * : we were very much encouraged by overhearing *' the duke of Argyle, who fat in the next box to "* us, fay, ' It will do—it muft do!... | |
 | John Gay - Fables - 1793 - 356 pages
...either take greatly, or be damned con" foundedly. — We were all, at the firft night of it, « in c< in great uncertainty of the event ; till we were " very much encouraged by overhearing the duke ** Argyle, who fat in the next box to us, fay, " It " will do— it muft do !... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...would either take greatly, or be damned confoundedly. — We were all at the firft night of it, in very great uncertainty of the event ; 'till we were very much encouraged, by overhearing the Duke of Argylc, »ho fat in the ne« box to us, fay, " It will do ; it mu II do ; 1... | |
 | John Gay - 1796 - 284 pages
...said, It would either take " greatly, or be damned confoundedly. — We " were all, at the first njght of it, in great uncertainty of the event; till we were very much " encouraged by overhearing the duke of AR" GYLE, who sat in the next box to us, say, ' It " will do — it must do... | |
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He began on it ; and when first he mentioned it to Swift, the Doctor did not much like the project. As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us, and we now and then gave a correction, or a word or two of advice ; but it was wholly of his... 
