 | James Boswell - 1904 - عدد الصفحات: 1590
...bargained for the whole property of it, for which he gave Johnson ten guineas ; who told me, ' I might, I may here observe, that Johnson appeared to me to 86 PAUL WHITEHEAD [1738 under-value Paul Whitehead... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 712
...Johnson ten guineas ; who told me, "I might perhaps have accepted of less; but that Paul VVhitehead had a little before got ten guineas for a 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... | |
 | Ralph Straus - 1910 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...property of it, for which he gave Johnson ten guineas ; who told me, " I might perhaps have accepted less ; but that Paul Whitehead had a little before...; and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead." ' Of this Whitehead, who must not be confounded with William Whitehead, afterwards poet-laureate, more... | |
 | Francis Cotterell Hodgson - 1913 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...telling Boswell of the sum he received in 1 738 for his Satire of London, ten guineas, said : " I might perhaps have accepted of less ; but that Paul Whitehead had a little before got 10 guineas for a poem ; and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead " ; on which Boswell remarks... | |
 | William Prideaux Courtney - 1915 - عدد الصفحات: 206
...Title, p. [r] ; the poem, pp. [3J-I9Published in May ; price 1s. Johnson received ten guineas for it. 'Paul Whitehead had a little before got ten guineas...poem and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead ' was his statement to Boswell in later life. The poem reflects the political views current among the... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1911 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...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 I would not take less than Paul Whiiebead." H2 A Minister, who was true to his order, never allowed himself to be shelved, or shifted,... | |
 | Edwin Beresford Chancellor - 1925 - عدد الصفحات: 286
...Dodsley at a subsequent period agreed to pay the same amount : "I might," remarked Johnson to Boswell, " perhaps have accepted of less, but that Paul Whitehead...poem, and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead." What happened in the interval between the publication of The State Dunces and the year 1735 is somewhat... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - عدد الصفحات: 670
...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 ; and 1 would not take less than Paul Whitehead." 1 may here observe, that Johnson appeared to me to undervalue... | |
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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. 
