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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. "
The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ... - Page 436
1817
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Quarterly Review, Volume 103

English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...literature is shown, by this indifference, to have been nothing at all. ' I might perhaps,' says Johnson, ' have accepted of less, but that Paul Whitehead had...poem, and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead.' ' I knew,' Johnson writes, under an assumed character, in the ' Rambler,' ' that no performance is...
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Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...conference, he bargained for the whole property of it, for which he gave Johnson ten guineas, who told me, " proportion with learning ; that they had hardly any...trade, any money, or any elegance, before the Union ; t poem, and I would not take leas than Paul Whitehead." I may here observe, that Johnson appeared to...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 34

James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pages
...Johnson ten guineas, who told me, " I might, perhaps, have accepted of less ; but that Paul \Vhitehead had a little before got ten guineas for a poem, and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead." 1 may here observe, that Johnson appeared to me to undervalue Paul Whitehead upon every occasion when...
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Shadows of the Old Booksellers

Charles Knight - Booksellers and bookselling - 1865 - 366 pages
...see nothing in ' London ' that could be deemed personal satire ; so he agreed to Johnson's terms. " Paul Whitehead had a little before got ten guineas...poem, and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead." On the same morning of May that ' London ' was published came out Pope's ' One Thousand Seven Hundred...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...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 Paul...Whitehead had a little before got ten guineas for a pocm, and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead.' I may here observe, that Johnson appeared to...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... together with A journal of a tour to the ...

James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...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 to undervalue Paul Whitehead upon every occasion when...
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LIFE AND CONSERVATIONS OF DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON (FOUNDED CHIEFLY UPON BOSWELL).

ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...by Robert Dodsley, who ultimately bought the copyright for ten guineas. " I might," says Johnson, " perhaps have accepted of less ; but that Paul Whitehead...; and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead." This rather makes us stare in these days, knowing, as we do, that hundreds of pounds are now given...
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The Early History of Charles James Fox

George Otto Trevelyan - Great Britain - 1880 - 490 pages
...become president of the council, he would not leave the woolsack till he had secured an immedi" but Paul Whitehead had a little before got ten guineas...poem, and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead." ate ^nnsion of two thousand a year, a prospective pension of four tn;usand a year, and the reversion...
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The Early History of Charles James Fox, Issue 274

George Otto Trevelyan - Great Britain - 1880 - 670 pages
...sold for ten guineas, said that he might, perhaps, have been content with less ; " but Paul AVhitehead had a little before got ten guineas for a poem, and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead." too disreputable to figure on the English Civil List, were quietly and snugly quartered on the Irish...
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The Early History of Charles James Fox

George Otto Trevelyan - Great Britain - 1880 - 486 pages
...president of the council, he would not leave the woolsack till he had secured an immedi" but Paul Whitehcad had a little before got ten guineas for a poem, and I would not take less tliau Paul Wliitehead." CHAP. III.] CHARLES JAMES FOX. ate pension of two thousand a year, a prospective...
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