 | Robert Shiells - 1753 - 366 pages
...fome years, as 1 went from time to time to vifit hhn, in a parcel of ten, twenty, or thirty veries at a time, which being written by whatever hand came next, might poffibly want correftion, as to the orthography and pointing; having, as the fummer came on, not been... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
...twenty, or thirty verfes at a " time (which, being written by what" ever hand came next, might poffibly " want correction as to the orthography " and pointing), having, as the Summer " came on, not been fhewed any for a " confiderable while; and defiring the '' reafon thereof, was anfwered, that his "vein... | |
 | Books - 1780 - 596 pages
...Whoever has read Milton's life will recoiled the circumftance which is related by his nephew Philips, that his vein never happily flowed but from the autumnal equinox to the vernal. This dependence of the foul upon the feafons is very juftly ridiculed by his prefent hiftorian ; and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...not been fhewed any for a confiderable ** while, and defiring the reafon thereof, was '* anfwered, that his vein never happily flowed •* but from the Autumnal Equinox to the ec 4* i; " Vernal ; and that whatever he attempted "• at other times was never to his fdtisfaction,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...fome years, as I 4t went from time to time to vifit him, in " parcels of ten, twenty, or thirty verfes at ** a time (which, being written by whatever ** hand came next, might poffibly want " corre&ion as to the orthography and point** ing), having, as the Summer came on, "... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...fome years, as I went " from time to time to vifit him, in parcels of ten, " twenty, or thirty verfes at a time (which, being " written by whatever hand came next, might poffibly " want correction as to the orthography and pointing), " having, as the fummer came on, not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...fome years, as I went " from time to time to vifit him, in parcels of ten, ** twenty, or thirty verfes at a time (which, being " written by whatever hand came next, might poffibly " want correction as to the orthography and pointing), " having, as the fummer came on, not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...fome years, as I " went from time to time to vifit him, in parcels of " ten, twenty, or thirty verfes at a time (which, " being written by whatever hand came next, might " poflibly want correction as to the orthography " and pointing), having, as the fummer came on, "... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...fome years, as I went from time " to time to vifit him, in parcels of ten, " twenty, or thirty verfes at a time (which, " being written by whatever hand came next, " might poffibly want correction as to the or" thography and pointing), having, as the " Summer came on, not... | |
 | William Hayley - 1799 - 376 pages
...fome years , as I went from time to time to vifit him , in parcels of ten , twenty, or thirty verfes at a time (which, being written by whatever hand came next , might poffibly want correction as to the orthography and pointing). Having, as the fummer came on , not been... | |
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I have a particular reason," says he, " to remember; for whereas I had the perusal of it from the very beginning, for some years, as I went from time to time to visit him, in parcels of ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a time (which, being written by... 
