 | sir George Otto Trevelyan (2nd bart.) - 1881 - 550 pages
...which noble poem he sold for ten guineas, said that he might, perhaps have been content with less; "but Paul Whitehead had a little before got ten guineas for a poem, and 1 would not take less than Paul Whitehead.' H 2 A Minister, who was true to his order, never allowed... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 742 pages
...succeeded in his business as a bookseller by his brother James. R. Dodsley died in 1 764.— Croker. Paul Whitehead had a little before got ten guineas...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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 722 pages
...succeeded in his business as a bookseller by his brother James. R. Dodsley died in 1764. — Croker. Paul Whitehead had a little before got ten guineas...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... | |
 | Ability - 1886 - 218 pages
...noble poem he sold for ten guineas, he said that he might perhaps have been content with less ; " but Paul Whitehead had a little before got ten guineas...and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead." In the year 1775 Sir Joshua Reynolds painted the portrait of Johnson, in which he was represented as reading,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1888 - 608 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 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...poem, and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead." I may here observe, that Johnson appeared to me toundervalue Paul Whitehead upon every occasion when... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 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...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... | |
 | James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...conference, he bargained for the whole property of it, for which he gave Johnson ten guineas; who told me, C 2 , TT i G ~ J7iG< P:J tH F[ ΙL E 1 < E P I ϸ 6 8: Claries-street, Feb. 19, 1806, in lier eighty-ninth year,— MALONE. AGE 29.] BOSIVELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1900 - 928 pages
...conference, he bargained for the whole property of it, for which he gave Johnson ten guineas ; who told me, " is house, where he more than once I may here observe, that Johnson appeared to me to undervalue Paul Whitehead upon every occasion when... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 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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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. 
