 | William Warburton - 1809 - 536 Seiten
...rendered more complete in : tlle second, let fall again as a thing of no notice. Mr. Pope used to tell me, that when he had any thing better than ordinary to...third edition, and then nobody took any notice of it. But there is one book, and that no large bftej which I would recommend to your perusal ; 're re called,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 392 Seiten
...me," said Warburton, " that when he had anything better than ordinary to say, and yet too bold, he reserved it for a second or third edition, and then nobody took any notice of it." Thus the sarcastic lines on Queen Caroline's death, a couplet fixing the character of Bufo on Lord... | |
 | 1854 - 816 Seiten
..."Another facetious friend of Dr. Bentley, Mr. Pope, ' used to tell ' Warburton, that when he had anything better than ordinary to say, and yet too bold, he...it." Accordingly in the first edition of The Dunciad, Pope tried the public taste for slander ; and succeeding beyond his most sanguine hopes, he, diffident... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 512 Seiten
...certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.3"0 134 Mr. Pope used to tell me, that when he had anything better than ordinary to say, and yet too bold, he...third edition, and then nobody took any notice of it. — WAHHURTON to Hurd, Sept. -'-2. 1751. 333 It is enough for those who make poetry the business of... | |
 | Robert Carruthers - 1857 - 554 Seiten
...me," said Warburton, " that when he had anything better than ordinary to say, and yet too bold, he reserved it for a second or third edition, and then nobody took any notice of it." This ia an illustration of his caution as well as management. The sarcastic lines on Queen Caroline's... | |
 | 1859 - 764 Seiten
...Another facetious friend of Or. Bentley, Mr. Pope, used to tell Warburton tbat when he had anything better than ordinary to say, and yet too bold, he...succeeding beyond his most sanguine hopes, he, diffident creatnre! added a fourth book, in which he gratified the ignorant and malicious by assailing men of... | |
 | John Selby Watson - 1863 - 750 Seiten
...printing.'* ' Mr. Pope used to tell me,' he says in another letter to Hurd, ' that when he had anything better than ordinary to say, and yet too bold, he...third edition, and then nobody took any notice of it.'-}Nichols says that Warburton, after the first edition was printed by Bowyer in 1750, 'called in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1866 - 654 Seiten
...formed by com•M Mr. Pope u«ed to tell me, that when he had anything better than ordinary to nay, and yet too bold, he always -reserved It for a second...edition, and then nobody took any notice of It.— WJRBOKTOH to Kurd, Sept W, 1751. "* It 10 enough for those who make poetry the business of their lives... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 570 Seiten
...safety. " He used to tell me," Warburton wrote to Hurd, Sept. 22, 1751, " that when he had anything better than ordinary to say, and yet too bold, he...third edition, and then nobody took any notice of it." The rule did not hold good of the Dunciad. He had assailed a host of writers in newspapers, who had... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 660 Seiten
...safety. "He used to tell me," Wartmrton wrote to Kurd, Sept. 22, 1751, " that when he had anything better than ordinary to say, and yet too bold, he...third edition, and then nobody took any notice of it." The rule did not hold good of the Dunciad. He had assailed a host of writers in newspapers, who had... | |
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Warburton, that when he had anything better than ordinary to say, and yet too bold, he always reserved it for a second or third edition, and then nobody took any notice of it. 
