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Works, Volume 10

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 pages
...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 a shoulder...the calamity so low that his life became in danger. By the care of his friends, among whom Pope appears to have shewn particular tenderness, his health...
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Fables

John Gay - 1816 - 266 pages
...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 a shoulder...the calamity so low, that his life became in danger. By the care of his friends, among whom Pope appears to have shown particular tenderness, his health...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 10

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 504 pages
...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 a shoulder " of mutton every day." This counsel wag rejected: the profit and principal were lost, and Gay sunk under the calamity so low that his....
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The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 376 pages
...hundred a year for life, " which," says Fenton, " will make you sure of a clean shirt and a shoul ' der of mutton every day." This counsel was rejected :...the calamity so low that his life became in danger. By the care of his friends, among whom Pope appears to have shown particular tenderness, his health...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 416 pages
...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 shoulder...the calamity so low, that his life became in danger. By the care of his friends> among whom Pope appears to have shewn particular tenderness, his health...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 430 pages
...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 a shoulder...the calamity so low that his life became in danger. By the care of his friends, among whom Pope appears to have shown particular tenderness, his health...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 426 pages
...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 shoulder...the calamity so low, that his life became in danger. By the care of his friends, among whom Pope appears to have shewn particular tenderness, his health...
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Posthumous Letters, from Various Celebrated Men: Addressed to Francis Colman ...

George Colman - 1820 - 402 pages
...importuned to sell as much as would purchase an hundred a-year for life, which, says Fenton, will mate you sure of a clean shirt and a shoulder of mutton...calamity so low, that his life became in danger." — JOHNSON'S Lives of the Poets. " It is supposed that the discountenance of the Court sunk deep into...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 428 pages
...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 a shoulder...lost, and Gay sunk under the calamity so low that his Hfe became in danger. By the care of his friends, among whom Pope appears to have shown particular...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 32

British poets - 1822 - 270 pages
...then importuned to sell as much as would purchase an hundred a year for life, " which," says Fcnton, " will make you sure of a clean shirt and a shoulder...the calamity so low that his life became in danger. By the care of his friends, among whom Pope appears to have shown particular tenderness, hjs health...
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