 | 1838 - 406 pages
...odes than Horace, and about four times as many comedies as Terence, found himself reduced to great difficulties by the importunities of a set of men,...and would not, as we say, be paid with a song." In 1719 a large collection of Durfey's ballads, sonnets, and songs, was published in six volumes ; and... | |
 | Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1838 - 430 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...life, and would not, as we say, be paid with a song." The whole of this article is exceedingly humorous, nor can we suppose that the chaste Addison would... | |
 | Charles N. Baldwin - 1842 - 454 pages
...odes than Horace, and about four times as' many comedies as Terence, he found himself reduced to groat difficulties by the importunities of a set of men who of late years had furnUhed him with the accommodauoni of life, and would not, as we say, be paid with a song." Those... | |
 | 1847 - 666 pages
...odes than Horace, and abont four times as many comedies as Terence, he found himself reduced to great rcy vears had furnished him with the accommodazious of life, and would not, as we say, be paid with a song."... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 902 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 yean-, had furnished him with the accommodations of life, and would not, as we say, be paid with a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 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...life, and would not, as we say, be paid with a song. Jn order to extricate my old friend, I immediately sent for the three directors of the play-house,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 536 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 Shakespear's phrase, had often filled 1 Thomas D'Urfey, author of numberless plays, all of which are... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 540 pages
...Horace, and about four times as many comedies as Terence, he was reduced to great dif-. ficulties, by the importunities of a set of men, who, of late...in their turn, do a good office for a man, who, in Shakespear's phrase, had often filled 1 Thomas D'TJrfey, author of numberless plays, all of which are... | |
 | 1857 - 514 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 Shahespear't phrase, had often filled their mouths, I mean with pleasantry and popular conceits. They... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 546 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 ths accommodations of 14 life, and -would not, as we say, be paid witli a song.... | |
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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... 
