 | Aristophanes - 1837 - 518 pages
...resembled Aristophanes— the celebrated Matthew Prior, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. " I asked whether Prior's poems were to be printed entire...will be " the eternal opprobrium of their ingenious author.' — JOHNSON. 4 Sir, Lord " Hailes has forgot. There is nothing in Prior that will excite to... | |
 | Aristophanes - 1837 - 540 pages
...reeembled Aristophanes — the celebrated Matthew Prior, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. " I asked whether Prior's poems were to be printed entire;...Prior, in his preface to a " collection of Sacred Poemt, by various hands, published by him at Edinburgh, " a great many years ago, where he mentions... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 780 pages
...course, to rejection, if not approved when known. > [In the farce of " All the World's a Stage."] * ["I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of Prior, In his preface to a Collection of Sacred Poenu, where he mentions • those Impure tales which will be the eternal opprobrium of their author.'... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 786 pages
...approved when known. 1 [In the farce of " All the World's a Stage.'T * [" I mentioned Lord Hallec's censure of Prior, in his preface to a Collection of Sacred Poems, where he mentions ' those impure talcs which will be the eternal opprobrium of their author.' — JOHNSON:... | |
 | Aristophanes - 1848 - 522 pages
...resembled Aristophanes — the celebrated Matthew Prior, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. " I asked whether Prior's poems were to be printed entire...will be " the eternal opprobrium of their ingenious author.' — JOHNSON. ' Sir, Lord '• Hailes has forgot. There is nothing in Prior that will excite... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 442 pages
...had not given a good life of Rochester. JOHNSON. " We have a good Death ; there is not much Life," I asked whether Prior's poems were to be printed entire...will be the eternal opprobrium of their ingenious author." JOHNSON. " Sir, Lord Hailes has forgot. There is nothing in Prior that will excite to lewdness.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1851 - 784 pages
...Stage."] J [" I mentioned Lord Halle!'! ceniure of Prior, In hli preface to a Collection of Sacred Poems, where he mentions ' those impure tales which will be the eternal opprobrium of their author.' — JOHNSON : ' Sir, Lord Halles has forgot.' There is nothing in Prior that will excite to... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 pages
...missed a fortune once or twice. He was talked of for court favour, and hoped to win it; but the court censure of Prior in his preface to a collection of...Edinburgh a great many years ago, where he mentions 'these impure tales, which will be the eternal opprobrium of their ingenious author.' JOHNSON: 'Sir,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 pages
...Pray send Barton back to me, I hope with some comfortable tidings." — Bolingbroke's Letters. 1 "I asked whether Prior's Poems were to be printed entire ; Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hales' censure of Prior in his preface to a collection of sacred poems, by various hands, published... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 360 pages
...Pray send Barton back to me, I hope with some comfortable tidings." — BolingliroTees Letters, 1 " I asked whether Prior's poems were to be printed entire ; Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hales' censure of Prior in his preface to a collection of sacred poems, by various hands, published... | |
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I asked whether Prior's poems were to be printed entire ; Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes's censure of Prior, in his preface to a collection of " Sacred Poems," by various hands, published by him at Edinburgh a great many years ago, where... 
