...lines for forty guineas; and he gives she poet a piece of critical reasoning, for Tonson considered he had a better bargain with " Juvenal, which is reckoned not so easy to translate as Ovid." la these times such a mere trader in literature has disappeared. election remains still among the desiderata...

...guineas; and he gives he poet a piece of critical reasoning, for Tonson considered he had a better uarguin with " Juvenal, which is reckoned not so easy to translate as Ovid." la these times such a mere trader in literature has disappeared. election remains still among the desiderata...

...liaving only 1446 lines for 50 guineas, \vhen he expected to have had at the rate of 1518 lines for ID guineas ; adding that he had a better bargain with...he says, " for the sherry ; it was the best of the land I ever drank." The current coin was at that period wretchedly debased. In one letter Dryden says,...

...lines for forty guineas; and he gives the Poet a piece of critical reasoning, for Tonson considered he had a better bargain with ' Juvenal, which is reckoned not so easy to translate as Ovid.' In these times such a mere Trader ill Literature has disappeared." On this statement we shall only...

...' only 1446 lines for 6fty guineas when he expected to have had at the rate of 1518 lines for forty guineas ;' adding, that he had a ' better bargain...which is reckoned not so easy to translate as Ovid'." " The value of Dryden's translations of the classics was so fully impressed upon Tonson's mind, in...

...guineas when he expected to have had at the rate of 1518 lines for forty guineas ;' adding, that be bad a ' better bargain with Juvenal, which is reckoned not so easy to translate as Ovid'." " The value of Dryden's translations of the classics was so fully impressed upon Tonson's mind, in...

...he expected to have had one thousand five hundred and eighteen lines for forty guineas, adding tliat he had a better bargain with Juvenal, which is reckoned...contain repeated acknowledgments of Tonson's kind attentions. " I " thank you heartily," hesays, " forthe sherry; it was the best of the " kind I ever...

...fifty guineas, v, IH-II he expected to have had one thousand five hundred and eighteen lines for forty guineas, adding that he had a better bargain •with Juvenal, which is reckoned not eo easy to translate as Ovid. Most of the other letters relate to the translation of Virgil, and contain...

...fifty guineas, when he expected to have had at the rate of 1518 lines for forty guineas," and shrewdly adding that he had " a better bargain with Juvenal,...which is reckoned not so easy to translate as Ovid." Dryden received from Tonson fifty pounds for each book of his translation of the Georgics and the .^Eneid...

...fifteen bundred and eighteen lines for forty guineas ; and be mentioned that he deemed himself to have had a better bargain with Juvenal, " which is reckoned not so easy to translate as Ovid."* Dryden was provoked by these squabblings to satirise him in a coarse descriptive verse; but Touson...