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" What had become of me, if Virgil had taxed me with another book ? I had certainly been reduced to pay the public in hammered money, for want of milled... "
The Works of the English Poets: Virgil, trans. by Dryden - Page 300
by Samuel Johnson - 1779
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 22

English poets - 1790 - 366 pages
...the beginning or the middle; and confequently the twelfth ^Eneid coft me double the time of the fifft and fecond. What had become of me, if Virgil had taxed me with another book? 1 had certainly been reduced to pay the public in hammered money for want of milled ; that is, in the...
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A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Pope's Iliad & Odyssey ...

1792 - 918 pages
...muft needs be more burdenfome than the beginning or the middle; and confequently the twelfth /Euf iit Coft me double the time of the firft and fecond. What...old words which I had ufed before. And the receivers muil have been forced to have taken any thing, where there was fo little to be had. £e(ides this difficulty...
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The Works of the British Poets, Volume 12

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 902 pages
...the middle; and conf.'g quently the twelfth ./Eneid coft me double the time of the firft and fccond. What had become of me, if Virgil had taxed me with...old words which I had ufed before. And the receivers mud have bi'cn force 1 to hare taken any thin*, where there was fo little to be had. B-fidcs this difficulty...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical ...

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1104 pages
...muft needs be more bunlcnfome than the beginning or the middle ; and confequently the twelfth yEneid coft me double the time of the firft and fecond. What...reduced to pay the public in hammered money for want of millrd ; that is, in the fame old words which I had ufcd before. And the receivers muft have been forced...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now ..., Volume 3

John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...the middle : and consequently the twelfth ^neid cost me double the time of the first and second. ' What had become of me, if Virgil had taxed me with...another book ? I had certainly been reduced to pay the publick in hammered money, for want of milled ; that is, in the same old words which I had used before...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now ..., Volume 3

John Dryden - English prose literature - 1800 - 712 pages
...the middle : and consequently the twelfth, JEnelA cost me double the time of the first and second. ' What had become of me, if Virgil had taxed me with...another book ? I had certainly been reduced to pay the publick in hammered money, for want of milled ; that is, in the same old words which I had used before...
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The Works of Virgil, Volume 2

Virgil - Agriculture - 1803 - 408 pages
...consequently the' twelfth jEneid cost me double the time of the first and second. What had become of me,:;ir Virgil had taxed me with another book ? I had' ° certainly been reduced to pay the public in- him-' mered money, for want of milled ; that is, in InfeF same old words which I had used before :...
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The works of Virgil, tr. into Engl. verse by mr. Dryden. Carey, Volume 2

Publius Vergilius Maro - 1806 - 328 pages
...or the middle; and consequently the twelfth ./Eneid cost me double the time of the first and second. What had become of me, if Virgil had taxed me with...hammered money, for want of milled ; that is, in the same old words which I had used before : and the receivers must have been forced to have taken any...
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The Works of Virgil, Volume 2

Virgil - Aeneas (Legendary character) - 1806 - 414 pages
...the middle ; and consequently the twelfth ./Eneid cost me double the time of the first and second. What had become of me, if Virgil had taxed me with...hammered money, for want of milled ; that is, in the same old words which I had used before ; and the receivers must have been forced to have taken any...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 484 pages
...the middle ; and, consequently, the twelfth JEneid cost me double the time of the first and second. What had become of me, if Virgil had taxed me with...hammered money, for want of milled ; that is, in the same old words which I had used before : and the receivers must have been forced to have taken any...
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