 | SAMUEL JOHNSON - 1781 - 254 pages
...This counfel was rejected ; the profit and principal were loft, and Gay funk under the calamity fo low that his life became in danger. By the care of his friends, among whom Pope appears to have Ihewn particular tendernefs, his health was reflored ; and, returning to his ftudies, he wrote a tragedy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 248 pages
...day. This counfel was rejected; the profit and principal were loft, and Gay funk under the calamity fo low that his life became in danger, By the care of his friends, among whom Pope appears to have fhewn particular tendernefs, his health was reftored ; and, returning to his ftudies, he wrote a tragedy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 602 pages
...This coiinfel was rejected ; the profit and principal were loft, and Gay funk under the calamity fo low that his life became in danger. By the care of his friends, among whom Pope appears to have fhewn particular tendernefs, his health was reftored ; and, returning to his ftudies, he wrote a tragedy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 474 pages
...This coiinfel was rejected ; the profit and principal were loft, and Gay funk under the calamity fo low that his life became in danger. By the care of his friends^ among whom Pope appears to have IhevVn particular tendernefs, his health was reftored ; and, returning to his ftudies, he wrote a tragedy... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 332 pages
...This counfcl was rejefted : the profit and principal were loft, and Gay funk, under the calamity lb low that his life became in danger. By the care of his friends, among whom Pope appears to have 'Ihewn particular tcnderjiefs, his health1 was reftored ; and, returning to his ftudies, he wrote a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...day." This counfel was rejected: the profit and principal were loft, and Gay funk under the calamity fo low that his life became in danger. By the care of his friends, among whom Pope appears to have Ihewn particular tendernefs, his health was reftored; and> returning to his ftudies, he Wrote a tragedy... | |
 | John Gay - Fables - 1793 - 356 pages
...day. This counfel was rejefted; the profit and principal were loft, and Gay funk under the calamity fo low that his life became in danger. By the care of his friends, among whom Pope appears to have Ihewn particular tendernefs, his health was reftored, and, returning to his ftudies, he wrote a tragedy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1797 - 278 pages
...this counfel was rejected ;• the profit and principal were loft, and he funk under the calamity fo low that his life became in danger. By the care of his friends, among whom Pope appears to have fhewn particular tendernefs, his health was reftored ; and, returning to his ftudies, he wrote a tragedy... | |
 | John Gay - English poetry - 1799 - 250 pages
...Spence. This counfel was rejected; the proht and principal were loft , and Gay funk under the calamity fo low that his life became in danger. By the care of his friends, among whom Pope appears to have fhewn particular tendernefs, his health was reftored, and, returning to his fiudics, he wrote a tragedy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...to obstruct his own fortune. vas then importuned to sell as much as would purchase an hundred a yea for life, " which," says Fenton, " will make you sure of a clean shirt am " a shoulder of mutton every day." This counsel was rejected : the pro and principal -were lost,... | |
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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. 
