 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 878 σελίδες
...of Crousaz. Amongst several other of those little presents, I ordered him to send one to Dr. Mead, as a man to whom all people that pretend to Letters...his great eminence in them, and patronage of them. When you happen to see him, I only beg you would make my compliments to him, and excuse the freedom... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1894 - 476 σελίδες
...Dr. Uirch, 15 Dec. 1739, of a pamphlet of Crousaz, says : ' I ordered him to send one to Dr. Mead, as a man to whom all people that pretend to letters...his great eminence in them and patronage of them.' Lewis Theobnld acknowledges his help to him in the preparation of his edition of Sliakespenre (KlCHOU,... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1896 - 398 σελίδες
...Dictionary ' of Dr. James were inscribed or presented to him ' as a man ' (in Warburton's words) ' to whom all people that pretend to letters ought to pay their tribute ' ; and there are others which owe their very existence entirely to his fostering and munificent care.... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1896 - 430 σελίδες
...Medicinal Dictionary' of Dr. James were inscribed or presented to him 'as a man' (in Warburton's words) 'to whom all people that pretend to letters ought to pay their tribute ; ' and there are others which owe their very existence entirely to his fostering and munificent care.... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - 1909 - 1368 σελίδες
...Dr. Birch, 15 Dec. 1739, of a pamphlet of Crousaz, says : ' I ordered him to send one to Dr. Mead, as a man to whom all people that pretend to letters...ought to pay their tribute on account of his great 1 eminence in them and patronage of them.' Lewis Theobald acknowledges his help to him in the preparation... | |
 | 1922 - 1426 σελίδες
...Dr. Birch, 15 Dec. 1739, of a pamphlet of Crousaz, says : ' I ordered him to send one to Dr. Mead, as a man to whom all people that pretend to letters...his great eminence in them and patronage of them.' Lewis Theobald acknowledges nis help to him in the preparation of his edition of Shakespeare (NICHOLS,... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1987 - 568 σελίδες
...into all Companies, from the Ministers Levée down to the City Club,2 I have found out the Means of ought to pay their tribute on account of his great eminence in them and patronage of them' (D\'B). Fielding himself alludes to the great size ol Mead's library in the 'Preface' to the jfoumalofa... | |
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Thnanus, fostered by Mead, we speak later on. Pope was his friend as well as his patient, and alludes to Mead's Bibliomania in his IV. Epistle : — " And books for Mead and butterflies (rarities) for Sloane. 