...Johnson ten guineas ; who told me, "I might perhaps have accepted of less; but that Paul VVhitehead had a little before got ten guineas for a poem ; and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead." I may here observe, that Johnson appeared to me to undervalue Paul Whitehead upon every occasion when...

...property of it, for which he gave Johnson ten guineas ; who told me, " I might perhaps have accepted less ; but that Paul Whitehead had a little before...; and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead." ' Of this Whitehead, who must not be confounded with William Whitehead, afterwards poet-laureate, more...

...said : " I might perhaps have accepted of less ; but that Paul Whitehead had a little before got 10 guineas for a poem ; and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead " ; on which Boswell remarks that Johnson undervalued Paul Whitehead, and that he would never be persuaded...

...Title, p. [r] ; the poem, pp. [3J-I9Published in May ; price 1s. Johnson received ten guineas for it. 'Paul Whitehead had a little before got ten guineas...poem and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead ' was his statement to Boswell in later life. The poem reflects the political views current among the...

...noble poem he sold for ten guineas, said that he might, perhaps, have been content with less; "but Paul Whitehead had a little before got ten guineas for a poem, and I would not take less than Paul Whiiebead." H2 A Minister, who was true to his order, never allowed himself to be shelved, or shifted,...

...Dodsley at a subsequent period agreed to pay the same amount : "I might," remarked Johnson to Boswell, " perhaps have accepted of less, but that Paul Whitehead...poem, and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead." What happened in the interval between the publication of The State Dunces and the year 1735 is somewhat...

...conference, he bargained for the whole property of it, for which he gave Johnson ten guineas ; who told me, "I might perhaps have accepted of less; but that Paul...had a little before got ten guineas for a poem ; and 1 would not take less than Paul Whitehead." 1 may here observe, that Johnson appeared to me to undervalue...

...conference, he bargained for the whole property of it, for which he gave Johnson ten guineas, who told me, T might, perhaps, have accepted of less; but that Paul...poem; and I would not take less than Paul Whitehead.' did not do him justice; but when it is considered that Paul Whitehead was a member of a riotous and...