 I recollect the occasion of my first attempt : it is, like all the 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...  The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis - Pàgina xiiper Juvenal - 1806 - 473 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Juvenal - 1802 - 574 pàgines
...the idlest reader to it, but for the reason alleged in the introductory paragraph. A person, whose name escapes me, had 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 pàgines
...the idlest reader to it, but for the reason alleged in the introductory paragraph. A person, whose name escapes me, had 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... | |
 | 1803 - 598 pàgines
...the idlest reader to it, but for the reason alleged in the introductory paragraph. A person, whose name escapes me, had 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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Perse, Juvénal - 1817 - 596 pàgines
...the idlest reader to it, but for the reason alleged in the introductory paragraph. A person, whose name escapes me, had undertaken to paint a sign for...of what we called verse : I liked it ; but fancied that I could compose something more to the purpose : I made the experiment, and by the unanimous suffrage... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1831 - 952 pàgines
...the idlest reader to it, but for the reason alleged in the introductory paragraph. A person, whose name escapes me, had 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... | |
 | 1830 - 340 pàgines
...the idlest reader to it, but for the reason alleged in the introductory paragraph. A person, whose name escapes me, had undertaken to paint a sign for...I could compose something more to the purpose : I made the experiment, and by the unanimous suffrage of my shopmates, was allowed to have succeeded.... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 390 pàgines
...of the idlest reader to it, but for the reason alleged m the introductory paragraph. A person, whose name escapes me, had undertaken to paint a sign for...I could compose something more to the purpose : I made the experiment, and by the unanimous suffrage of my shopmates was allowed to have succeeded. Notwithstanding... | |
 | 1827 - 394 pàgines
...the idlest reader to it, but fur the reason alleged in the introductory paragraph. A. person, whose name escapes me, had undertaken to paint a sign for...fancied I could compose something more to the purpose. 1 made the experiment, and by the unanimous suffrage of my shopmates, was allowed to have succeeded.... | |
 | 1827 - 728 pàgines
...(he idlest reader to it, but for the reason alleged in the introductory paragraph. A person, whose name escapes me, had undertaken to paint a sign for...acquaintance wrote a copy of what we called verse : 1 liked it, but fancied that I could compose something more 10 the purpose. 1 made the experiment,... | |
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