| Juvenal - 1802 - 574 pages
...rest of my non-adventures, of so unimportant a nature, that I should blush to call the attention of the idlest reader to it, but for the reason alleged...undertaken to paint a sign for an ale-house: it was to be a lion, but the unfortunate artist produced a dog. On this awkward affair one of my acquaintance... | |
| 1803 - 614 pages
...my non-adventures, tares, of so unimportant a nature, that I Should blifsfi to call the attention of the idlest reader to it, but for the reason alleged...undertaken to paint a sign for an alehouse: it was to be a lion, but the unfortunate ;artist produced a dog. On this awkward affair one of my Acquaintance... | |
| Juvenal - Latin poetry - 1803 - 354 pages
...rest of my non-adventures, of so unimportant a nature, that I should blush to call the attention of the idlest reader to it, but for the reason alleged...undertaken to paint a sign for an alehouse : it was to be a lion, but the unfortunate artist produced a dog. On this awkward affair one of my acquaintance... | |
| Biography - 1803 - 598 pages
...my non-adventures, tures, of so unimportant a nature, that I Should blush to call the attention of the idlest reader to it, but for the reason alleged...undertaken to paint a sign for an alehouse: it was to be a lion, but the unfortunate artist produced a dog. On this awkward affair one of my acquaintance... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1804 - 714 pages
...me, had undertaken to paint a fign for an ale-houfev It was to be a lion, but the unfortunate artift produced a dog. On this awkward affair one of my acquaintance wrote a copy of what he called verfes. I liked it, but fancied I could compofe fomething more to the purpofe. I tried, and... | |
| Juvenal - 1806 - 578 pages
...rest of my non-adventures, of so unimportant a nature, that I should blush to call the attention of the idlest reader to it, but for the reason alleged...copy of what we called verse: I liked it, but fancied I could compose something more to the purpose: I tried, and by the unanimous suffrage of my shopmates... | |
| Juvenal - Satire, Latin - 1806 - 582 pages
...rest of my non-adventures, of so unimportant a nature, that I should blush to call the attention of the idlest reader to it, but for the reason alleged...copy of what we called verse: I liked it, but fancied I could compose something more to the purpose: I tried, and hy the unanimous suffrage of my shoptnates... | |
| Juvenal - Satire, Latin - 1806 - 576 pages
...rest of my non-adventures, of so unimportant a nature, that I should blush to call the attention of the idlest reader to it, but for the reason alleged...escapes me, had undertaken to paint a sign for an ale-nouse : it was to have been -a lion, but the unfortunate artist produced a dog. On this awkward... | |
| Juvenal - Satire, Latin - 1806 - 586 pages
...rest of my non-adventures, of so unimportant a nature, that I should blush to call the attention of the idlest reader to it, but for the reason alleged in the introductory paragraph. A person, whosa name escapes me, had undertaken to paint a sign for an ale-house : it was to have been a lion,... | |
| John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1831 - 952 pages
...rest of my non-adventures, of so unimportant a nature, that I should blush to call the attention of the idlest reader to it, but for the reason alleged...undertaken to paint a sign for an ale-house ; it was to be a lion, but the unfortunate artist produced a dog. On this awkward affair, one of my acquaintance... | |
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