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" When it was known, it was necessarily admired: the King quoted, the courtiers studied, and the whole party of the royalists applauded it. Every eye watched for the golden shower which was to fall upon the author, who certainly was not without his part... "
The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ... - Page 465
by Alexander Chalmers - 1813
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ...

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 280 pages
...pr.aifecl and elated. But praife was his whole reward. Clarendon, fays b 4 Wood, Wbodj gave him reafon to hope for " places and employments of value and '•' credit;" but no fuch advantages did he ever obtajm It is reported that ticking once gave him three hundred guineas...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...was again praifed and elated. But praife was his whole reward. Clarendon, fays Wood, gave him reafon to hope for " places and employments of value and credit;" but no fnch advantages did he ever obtain. It is reported * This is laid by Mr. Thomas Warton, and with great...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...was again praifed and elated. But praife was his whole reward. Clarendon, fays Wood, gave him reafon to hope for " places and employments of value and credit;" but no fuch advantages did he ever obtain. It is reported • Thiť is faid by Mr. Thomas "Warton, and with...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...was again praifed and elated. But praife was his whole reward. Clarendon, fays Wood, gave him reafon to hope for " places and employments of value and *' Credit;" but no fuch advantages did he ever obtain. I It It is reported that the King once gave him three hundred guineas;...
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A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an ... Account of the ...

G.W. Johnson - 1795 - 414 pages
...was again praifed and elated. But praife was his whole reward. Clarendon, fays Wood, gave him reafon to hope for " places and employments of value and credit ;" but no filch advantages did he ever obtain. It is reported, that the king once gave him 300 guineas; but of...
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The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work

Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pages
...was again praifed and elated. But praife was his whole reward. Clarendon, fays Wood, gave him reafon to hope for " places " and employments of value and credit;" but no fuch advantages did he ever obtain. It is reported that the king once gave him three hundred guineas;...
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A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ...

1798 - 560 pages
...was again praifed and elated. But praifc was his whole reward. Clarendon, fays Wood, gave him-reafon to hope for " places and employments of value and credit ;" but no fuch advantages did he ever obtain. It is reported, that the king once gave him 300 guineas ; but of...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...in the general expectation. '4 the second part appeared ; the curiosity of the nation was rekindled, writer was, again praised and elated. But praise was his whole reward. m, says Wood, gave him reason to hope for " places and employof value and credit ;" hut no such advantages...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...watched for the goldenshower, which was to fall upon the author, who certainly was not without his part in the general expectation. In 1664 the second part...the curiosity of the nation was rekindled, and the \yriter was again praised and elated. But praise was his whole reward. Clarendon, says Wood, gave him...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...was again praifed and elated. But praife was his whole reward. Clarendon, fays Wood, gave him reafon to hope for " places and employments of value and " credit ;" but no fuch advantages did he ever obtain. It It is reported that the King once gave him three 'hundred guineas...
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