| Books - 1804 - 994 pages
...retrieve this second failure of his hopes, he ventured on a new experiment, in the publication of " Select Satires of Horace translated into English verse,...most part adapted to the present times and manners." Tins work was so favourably received by the public, that its profits, added to some incidental assistance... | |
| David Irving - English poetry - 1804 - 524 pages
...with a degree of success which surprized no person more than himself. In the year 1779 he published " Select Satires of Horace, translated into English...most part, adapted to the Present Times and Manners." This work was fj; nted at London in a quarto for,; ; and produced him a profit of nearly one hundred... | |
| Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1804 - 620 pages
...probably to console himself, by his literary exertions, that he now (1T79) published his first work — ' Select Satires of Horace, translated into English...most Part adapted to the present Times and Manners :' — the profits of which, with the assistances of his friends, served once more to wipe off his... | |
| British Museum. Department of Printed Books - Library catalogs - 1813 - 672 pages
...paraphrased. 4" Lond. 1714. Sat. 1 and 2 of the second Book imitated. 4" Land. 1734. • Select Satires, translated into English Verse, and, for the most part, adapted to the present Times. By A. Geddes. 4» Lond. 1779. * — Carmen Seculare. Anal, by W. Duncombe. fol. Lond, 1721. — translated... | |
| British Museum. Department of Printed Books - Bibliography - 1813 - 688 pages
...paraphrased. 4° Land. 1714. Sat. 1 and 2 of the second Book imitated. 4° Land. 1734. Select Satires, translated into English Verse, and, for the most part, adapted to the present Times. By A. Geddes. 4° Lend. 1779. Carmen Seculare. Angl. by W. Buncombe, fol. Loud. 1721. translated into... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 548 pages
...the muses. " Some daemon," he says, " whispered him that he had a turn for poetry," which produced in 1779, " Select Satires of Horace, translated into...most part adapted to the present times and manners," 4to. The impression of this work extended only to 750 copies, yet he reaped a profit of 100/. which... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 544 pages
...muses. " Some daemon," he says, " whispered him that he had a turn for poetry r" which, produced in 1779, " Select Satires of Horace, translated into...most part adapted to the present times and manners," 4to. The impression of this work extended only to 750 copies, yet he reaped a profit of l ()()/. which... | |
| Joseph Robertson - Poets, Scottish - 1822 - 414 pages
...degree of success, which perbaps surprised no one more than himself. In 1779, he puhlished, at London, " Select Satires of Horace, translated into English...most part, adapted to the present Times and Manners." These satires were not altogether the production of the present moment of exigency ; they had occasionally... | |
| Franz Ludwig Anton Schweiger - Classical literature - 1832 - 606 pages
...of Horace translated into engl. verse by William Boscawen. 8. London, Stockdale 1797. 580 S. 8 Sh. Select Satires of Horace translated into english verse...most part adapted to the present times and manners by Alex. Geddes. 4. Lond., C.adell 1779. 5 Sh. Six Satires of Horace in a stjle between free imitation... | |
| William Anderson - Heraldry - 1862 - 806 pages
...difficulties than ever. To free himself from his new embarrassments he published, iu 1779, at London, ' Select Satires of Horace, translated into English...most part, adapted to the present Times and Manners,' which produced him a profit of about one hundred pounds. This sum, with the proceeds of the sale of... | |
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