 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 450 páginas
...obstruct his own fortune, He was then importuned to sell as much as would purchase an hundred a year for life, " which," says Fenton, " will make you sure of a clean shirt and a shoulder of mutton every day."'7 This counsel was rejected : the profit and principal were lost, and Gay sunk under the calamity... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 484 páginas
...obstruct his own fortune. He was then importuned to sell as much as would purchase an hundred a year for life, " which," says Fenton, " will make you sure of a clean shirt and a shoulder of mutton every day."17 This counsel was rejected : the profit and principal were lost, and Gay sunk under the calamity... | |
 | John Gay - 1854 - 312 páginas
...fortune, he disregarded the advice of Fenton to purchase an annuity, which, as he said, " would make him sure of a clean shirt and a shoulder of mutton every day," so that when the bubble burst, and the substance dwindled to the shadow, poor Gay's life almost sank... | |
 | John Gay - 1854 - 300 páginas
...fortune, he disregarded the advice of Fenton to purchase an annuity, which, as he said, " would make him sure of a clean shirt and a shoulder of mutton every day," so that when the bubble burst, and the substance dwindled to the shadow, poor Gay's life almost sank... | |
 | John Gay - 1857 - 302 páginas
...fortune, he disregarded the advice of Fenton to purchase an annuity, which, as he said, " would make him sure of a clean shirt and a shoulder of mutton every day," so that when the bubble burst, and the substance dwindled to the shadow, poor Gay's life almost sank... | |
 | Adolphe Thiers - 1859 - 376 páginas
...obstruct his own fortune. He was then importuned to sell as much as would purchase a hundred a year for life, " which," says Fenton, " will make you sure...the calamity so low that his life became in danger. — Johnson's Lives of the Poets. to come to the rescue. Every person of note in commercial politics... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1861 - 660 páginas
...then importuned to sell as much as would purchase an hundred a year for life, " which," says Fentou, " will make you sure of a clean shirt and a shoulder...care of his friends, among whom Pope appears to have shown particular tenderness, his health was restored ; and, returning to his studies, he wrote a tragedy... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 páginas
...master °f £20,000. At that crisis his friends importuned him to sell, but he rejected the counsel : ? l . 7 h w rjeAE gj ] 莮 9K ^ e R 9 P . C r and his life became in danger. The ministers grew more alarmed, the directors were insulted in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1864 - 442 páginas
...but he dreamed of dignity and splendour, and could not bear to obstruct his own fortune. He was theu importuned to sell as much as would purchase an hundred...a clean shirt and a shoulder of mutton every day." J Afterwards Earl of Bath. • Spencc. 260 GAT. This counsel was rejected; the profit and principal... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - 1865 - 464 páginas
...obstruct his own fortune. He was then importuned to sell as much as would purchase a hundred a year for life, " which," says Fenton, " will make you sure...the calamity so low that his life became in danger. It will hardly be wondered at, however, that literary men should have been thus beguiled, in view of... | |
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will make you sure of a clean shirt and a shoulder of mutton every day." This counsel was rejected : the profit and principal were lost, and Gay sunk under the calamity so low that his life became in danger. 
