 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 628 pages
...he was reduced to great difficulties by the importunities of a set of men, who, of iate years, have furnished him with the accommodations of life, and...I immediately sent for the three directors of the play house, and desired them that they would, in their turn, do a good office for a man, who, in Shakspeare's... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 328 pages
...written more odes than Horace, and about four times as many comedies as Terence, he was reduced to great difficulties by the importunities of a set of men, who, of late years, have furnished him with the accommodations of life, and would not, as we say, be paid with a song.... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 476 pages
...than Horace, and about four ' times as many comedies as Te' rence, he found himself re' duced to great difficulties by the ' importunities of a set of men,...and would not, as we ' say, be paid with a song." Mr. Addison then informs us, that, in order to extricate him from these difficulties, he himself immediately... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 482 pages
...than Horace, and about four ' times as many comedies as Te' rence, he found himself re' duced to great difficulties by the ' importunities of a set of men,...life, and would not, as we say, be paid with a song." Mr. Addison then informs us, that, in order to extricate him from these difficulties, he himself immediately... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 562 pages
...odes than Horace, and about four times as many comedies as Terence, he found himself reduced to great difficulties by the importunities of a set of men,...life, and would not, as we say, be paid with a song." Mr. Addison informs us, that, in order to extricate him from these difficulties, he himself immediately... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 560 pages
...Terence, he found himself reduced to great difficulties by the importunities of a set of men, who of tate years had furnished him with the accommodations of...life, and would not, as we say, be paid with a song." Mr. Addison informs us, that, in order to extricate him from these difficulties, he himself immediately... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1815 - 918 pages
...odes than Horace, and about four times as many comedies as Terence, he found himself reduced to great difficulties by the importunities of a set of men,...life, and would not, as we say, be paid with a song." We are then informed, that, in order to extricate him from these difficulties, he himself applied to... | |
 | John Britton - 1815 - 920 pages
...odes than Horace, and about four times as many comedies as Terence, he found himself reduced to great difficulties by the importunities of a set of men,...life, and would not, as we say, be paid with a song." We are then informed, that, in order to extricate him from these difficulties, he himself applied to... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1816 - 924 pages
...odes than Horace, and about four times as many comedies as Terence, he found himself reduced to great difficulties by the importunities of a set of men,...life, and would not, as we say, be paid with a song." We are then informed, that, in order to extricate him from these difliculties, he himself applied to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 508 pages
...written more odes than Horace, and about four times as many comedies as Terence, he was reduced to great difficulties by the importunities of a set of men,...in their turn do a good office for a man, who, in Shakespeare's phrase, had often filled their mouths, I mean with pleasantry, and popular conceits.... | |
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Tom observed to me, that after having written more odes than Horace, and about four times as many comedies as Terence, he was reduced to great difficulties, by the importunities of a set of men, who, of late years, had furnished him with the accommodations... 
