 Tom observed to me, that after having written more odes than Horace, and about four times as many comedies as Terence, he was reduced to great difficulties by the importunities of a set of men, who, of late years, had furnished him with the accommodations...  The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ... - Sida 589efter John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1816Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - 1878 - 380 sidor
...and four times as many Comedies as Terence, he was reduced to great difficulties by a set of men who had furnished him with the accommodations of life, and would not, as we say, " be paid with a song." "As my friend," he continues, " after the manner of all the old lyrics, accompanies his works with... | |
 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - 1878 - 378 sidor
...and four times as many Comedies as Terence, he was reduced to great difficulties by a set of men who had furnished him with the accommodations of life, and would not, as we say, " be paid with a song." " As my friend," he continues, " after the manner of all the old lyrics, accompanies his works with... | |
 | Alfred Guy K. L'Estrange - 1878 - 384 sidor
...and four times as many Comedies as Terence, he was reduced to great difficulties by a set of men who had furnished him with the accommodations of life, and would not, as we say, " be paid with a song." " As my friend," he continues, " after the manner of all the old lyrics, accompanies his works with... | |
 | Bernard Henry Becker - 1884 - 340 sidor
...good-natured man.' The Right Hon. Joseph Addison continues, 'Tom observed to me, that having written more odes than Horace, and about four times as many comedies as Terence, he was reduced to great difficulties by the importunities of a set of men who of late years had furnished... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - 1885 - 414 sidor
...his own county by pretending to have been in company with Tom D'Urfey in town. After having written more odes than Horace, and about four times as many comedies as Terence, he was, when Addison found him in 1713, in great difficulties. He lived, however, ten years longer, and... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - 1885 - 384 sidor
...his own county by pretending to have been in company with Tom D'Urfey in town. After having written more odes than Horace, and about four times as many comedies as Terence, he was, when Addison found him in 1713, in great difficulties. He lived, however, ten years longer, and... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - 1888 - 392 sidor
...his own county by pretending to have been in company with Tom D'Urfey in town. After having -written more odes than Horace, and about four times as many comedies as Terence, he was, when Addison found him in 1713, in great difficulties. He lived, however, ten years longer, and... | |
 | Clarence Howard Clark - 1888 - 622 sidor
...1886. 120 pp. •.• D'Urfey ( -'723) was the Author of thirty-two Plays and "after having " written more Odes than Horace and about four times as many comedies as Terence," found himself late in life in reduced circumstances. Addison made a strong and exceedingly interesting... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1889 - 416 sidor
...from whom descended Thomas D'Urfey, the ornament of this paper.* * According to Addison, D'Urfey wrote more odes than Horace, and about four times as many comedies as Terence. Here is what Dr. William King, of merry memory, says of one of D'Urfey's dramatic pieces : "The ingenious... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1902 - 502 sidor
...as it serves to indicate Tom's amazing fertility. In another place he confesses to having composed more odes than Horace and about four times as many comedies as Terence. Probably the odes and political songs were the most profitable of his productions. The period was in... | |
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