 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 604 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 V I may here observe, that Johnson appeared to me to undervalue Paul Whitehead upon every occasion... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 600 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 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 Paul...poem ; and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead V I may here observe, that Johnson appeared to me to undervalue Paul Whitehead upon every occasion... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 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...guineas for a poem; and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead9." I may here observe, that Johnson appeared to me to undervalue Paul Whitehead upon every... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 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 Paul...poem; and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead 2." I may here observe, that Johnson appeared to me to undervalue Paul Whitehead upon every occasion... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 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 Faul Whitehead upon every occasion when... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 706 pages
...* No ! Dodsley will take it ! and what's more, he will give ten guineas for it! The author says : " I might perhaps have accepted of less ; but that Paul...poem, and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead." Ten guineas strikes us as cheap for "London:" and yet it was as much again as Milton got for "Paradise... | |
 | 1854 - 768 pages
...take it ! and what's more, he will give ten guineas for it! The author says: " I might perhaps hare accepted of less ; but that Paul Whitehead had a little...poem, and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead." Ten guineas strikes us as cheap for "London:" and yet it was as much again as Milton got for "Paradise... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1858 - 598 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 so... | |
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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. 
