 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 páginas
...fortune. He was then importuned to sell as much as would purchase a hundred a year for life, "which," said Fenton, "will make you sure of a clean shirt and a...counsel was rejected ; the profit and principal were both lost, and Gay sunk so low under the calamity that his life for a time became in danger. Pope,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 492 páginas
...Fenton urged Gay ' to sell as much South Sea stock as would purchase a hundred a year for life, " which will make you sure of a clean shirt and a shoulder of mutton every day."' Johnson's Works, viii. 65. In Tristram Shandy, ii. ch. 4, published in 1759, we read : — ' It was... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1890 - 360 páginas
...much as would secure him an annuity of one hundred a year, — " which," said the practical-minded Fenton, " will make you sure of a clean shirt and a shoulder of mutton every day." The prudent counsel was ignored ; botli interest and principal were lost ; and Gay sank under his calamity... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1896 - 328 páginas
...then importuned to sell as much as would purchase a hundred a year for life, which, says Fenton, mil make you sure of a clean shirt and a shoulder of mutton...danger. By the care of his friends, among whom Pope seems to have shown particular tenderness, his health was restored ; and, returning to his studies,... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1873 - 610 páginas
...fortune. He was then importuned to sell as much as would purchase a hundred a year for life, "which," said Fenton, "will make you sure of a clean shirt and a...every day." This counsel was rejected ; the profit S43_ and principal were both lost, and Gay sunk so low under the calamity that his life for a time... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 456 páginas
...He was then importuned to sell as much as would purchase an hundred a year for life, ' which,* says Fenton, ' will make you sure of a clean shirt and...the calamity so low that his life became in danger. 15 By the care of his friends, among whom Pope appears to have shewn particular tenderness 3, his health... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 2004 - 662 páginas
...was then importuned to sell as much as would purchase a hundred a year for life, "which," saysFenton, "will make you sure of a clean shirt and a shoulder...the calamity so low that his life became in danger. — Johnson's Lives of the Poets. '» Smollett. 16 "'God cannot love,' says Blunt, with tearless eyes,... | |
 | Calhoun Winton - 1993 - 236 páginas
...Pope, perhaps at a loss but certainly not with the catastrophic results recorded by Samuel Johnson: "Gay sunk under the calamity so low that his life became in danger."10 Not so; Johnson is transferring his melancholy views to the wrong poet. In a poem he published... | |
 | Martin S. Fridson - 1995 - 226 páginas
...fortune. He was then importuned to sell as much as would purchase a hundred a year for life, "which," says Fenton, "will make you sure of a clean shirt and a...under the calamity so low that his life became in danger.—Johnson's Lives of the Poets. The Bank was very unwilling to mix itself up with the affairs... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 418 páginas
...He was then importuned to sell as much as would purchase an hundred a year for life, " which," says Fenton, " will make you sure of a clean shirt and...care of his friends, among whom Pope appears to have shewn particular tenderness, his health was restored; and, returning to his studies, he wrote a tragedy... | |
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will make " you sure of a clean shirt and a shoulder of mutton " every day." This counsel was rejected : the profit and principal were lost ; and Gay sunk under the calamity so low, that his life became in danger. 
