 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pages
...had not given a good Life of Rochester. JOHNSON : " We have a good Death; there is not much Life." I mas Sheridan, which Foote took a w author." JOHNSON : "Sir, Lord Hailes has forgot. There is nothing in Prior that will excite to lewdness.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 414 pages
...asked whether Prior's poems were to be printed entire; Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hales's censure of Prior in his preface to a collection of sacred poems, by various 2O hands, published by him at Edinburgh a great many years ago, where he mentions ' these impure tales,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1900 - 544 pages
...done? It will be the greatest favour to me. If you do, I will then send his name and condition, 1. "I asked whether Prior's Poems were to be printed entire; ' Johnson said they were. . . . ' There is nothing in Prior that will ' excite to lewdness. If Lord Hailes thinks there is, he... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 418 pages
...Pray send Barton back to me, I hope with some comfortable tidings." — Bolingbroke's Letters. * " I asked whether Prior's poems were to be printed entire ; Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hales's censure of Prior in his preface to a collection of sacred poems, by various hands, published... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1922 - 548 pages
...done? It will be the greatest favour to me. If you do, I will then send his name and condition, 1. " I asked whether Prior's Poems were to be printed entire ; ' Johnson said they were. . . . ' There is nothing in Prior that will ' excite to lewdness. If Lord Hailes thinks there is, he... | |
 | Reinard Willem Zandvoort - 1924 - 494 pages
...turn, for Boswell tells us how when he reminded Johnson of Lord Hailes's censure of Prior for writing "those impure tales which will be the eternal opprobrium of their ingenious author", Johnson replied : "Sir, Lord Hailes has forgot. There is nothing in Prior that will excite... | |
 | Michael Lind - 1997 - 310 pages
...Samuel Johnson, in a conversation with his biographer James Boswell about the poet Matthew Prior: I asked whether Prior's poems were to be printed entire;...to a collection of "Sacred Poems," by various hands . . . where he mentions "those impure tales which will be the eternal opprobrium of their ingenious... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 2007 - 298 pages
...some comfortable tidings." — Bolingbroke's Letters. 59.27 James Boswell, Esq., of Auchinleck.* * "I asked whether Prior's poems were to be printed entire; Johnson said they were. I mentioned Lord Hailes' 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... 
