 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1914 - 606 σελίδες
...Mr. Joseph Gay, and at others theory Burnet, or Addison. I abridged histories and travels, translated from the French what they never wrote, and was expert...notorious thief was hanged, I was the Plutarch to preserve his memory; and when a great man died, mine were his Remains, and mine the account of his... | |
 | Ralph Straus - 1927 - 406 σελίδες
...and profaneness, under the names of Pope and Swift. ... I abridged histories and travels, translated from the French what they never wrote, and was expert at finding out new titles for old books. . . . Had Mr. Oldmixon and Mr. Curl agreed, my assistance had probably been invited into Father Bohour's... | |
 | 1908 - 1036 σελίδες
...Mr. Joseph Gay, and at others Theory Burnet, or Addison. I abridged histories and travels, translated from the French what they never wrote, and was expert...notorious thief was hanged, I was the Plutarch to preserve his memory ; and when a great man died, mine were his Remains, and mine the account of his... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero - 1892 - 600 σελίδες
...was Mr. Joseph Gay, at others theory Burnet or Addison. I abridged histories and travels, translated from the French what they never wrote, and was expert...notorious thief was hanged, I was the Plutarch to preserve his memory ; and when a great man died, mine were his remains, and mine the account of his... | |
 | 1899 - 1052 σελίδες
...abridged histories and travels, translated from the French what they never wrote, and was expert in finding out new titles for old books. When a notorious thief was hanged, I was the Plutarch to preserve his memory, and mine the account of his last will and testament.' The reprinting in its entirety... | |
 | Harold Love - 2002 - 284 σελίδες
...[ie John] Gay, and at others Theory Burnet, or Addison. I abridg'd Histories and Travels, translated from the French, what they never wrote, and was expert...notorious Thief was hanged, I was the Plutarch to preserve his Memory; and when a great Man died, mine were his Remains, and mine the Account of his... | |
 | Melvyn Bragg - 2004 - 376 σελίδες
...Pope and Swift . . . Mr. John Gay ... or Addison. I abridged histories and travels from the French they never wrote and was expert at finding out new titles for old books." Curll was made to stand in the pillory for publishing The Memoirs of John Ker ofKenland. But he was... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1908 - 406 σελίδες
...Joseph Gay, and at others theory Bui-net, or Addison. I abridged histories and travels, translated from the French what they never wrote, and was expert...notorious thief was hanged, I was the Plutarch to preserve his memory ; and when a great man died, mine were his Remains, and mine the account of his... | |
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Gay, and at others Theory Burnet, or Addison. I abridged histories and travels, translated from the French what they never wrote, and was expert at finding out new titles for old books. ' When a notorious thief was hanged, I was the Plutarch to preserve... 
