 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 490 pages
...Ralph, society, that the anniversary parade was and other minor humourists of the day " " I miglit, perhaps, have accepted of less, but that Paul Whitehead...upon all the venerable forms of the constitution, mi. !ii the assumption of a universal depravity of manners. Pope had at this time taken liberties which,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 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 peem ; and I would not take less than Panl Whitehead." I may hire observe, that Johnson appeared to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 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 poem ; und I would not take less than Paul Whilehead." I may litre observe, that Johnson appeared to me... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 394 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...poem; 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... | |
 | 1821 - 488 pages
...Dodsley 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...Whitehead had a little before got ten guineas for a poem j and I did not like to be less than Whitehead.' — For ' The Vanity of Human Wishes,' his second... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 508 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...; 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 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...; 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1824 - 910 pages
...for which hegenerousS ly gave Johnson ten guineas. " I mightperhaps," said.Johnson, "have accepted less ; but that Paul Whitehead had, a little before,...poem; and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead." The merit of this poem was immediately acknowleged by Pope, who then filled the poetical throne without... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 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...; 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1827 - 622 pages
...the whole property of it, for which he gave Johnson ten guineas ; who told me, " I might perhaps nave Y@ p tuke less than 1'aul Whitehead." I may here observe, that Johnson appeared to me to undervalue Paul... | |
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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. 
