 He now (about 1744) came to London a literary adventurer, with many projects in his head, and very little money in his pocket.  The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ... - Page 25by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1813Full view - About this book
 | John N. Crawford - 1903 - 442 pages
...public refused to listen to him. In 1744 he went to London, as Johnson says, " a literary adventurer, with many projects in his head, and very little money in his pocket." The brief biography of him in " The Lives of the Poets " is pathetic and full of sympathy, for Johnson... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1904 - 458 pages
...contrast between his earlier and later manner : He now (about 1744) came to London a literary adventurer, with many projects in his head, and very little money...many works ; but his great fault was irresolution ; or the frequent calls of immediate necessity broke his scheme, and suffered him to pursue no settled... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 pages
...254. For Demy see ante, ADDISON, 8. 335 He now (about 1744) came to London a literary adventurer, 4 with many projects in his head, and very little money...many works, but his great fault was irresolution, or the frequent calls of immediate necessity broke his schemes, and suffered him to pursue no settled... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 246 pages
...agency is almost destroyed." 4 " Collins," writes Johnson, " came to London a literary adventurer, with many projects in his head and very little money...many works, but his great fault was irresolution, or the frequent calls of immediate necessity broke his schemes and suffered him to pursue no settled... | |
 | Johnson Club (London, England) - 1920 - 248 pages
...agency is almost destroyed." 4 " Collins," writes Johnson, " came to London a literary adventurer, with many projects in his head and very little money...many works, but his great fault was irresolution, or the frequent calls of immediate necessity broke his schemes and suffered him to pursue no settled... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 pages
...delight. Lives of the Poets 262 William Collins HE now (about 1744) came to London a literary adventurer, with many projects in his head, and very little money...many works, but his great fault was irresolution, or the frequent calls of immediate necessity broke his schemes, and suffered him to pursue no settled... | |
 | Arthur Simons Collins - 1927 - 288 pages
...became by necessity an author." 1 Collins, we are told, in 1774 " came to London a literary adventurer, with many projects in his head /and very little money in his pocket." 2 Francklin (1721-84) " for the greater part of his life was compelled by want of lucrative preferment... | |
 | 1897 - 916 pages
...moral force to carry out. "He now, about 1744," writes Johnson, "came to London a literary adventurer with many projects in his head and very little money...many works, but his great fault was irresolution; or the frequent calls of immediate necessity broke his scheme, and suffered him to pursue no settled... | |
 | Andrew Kippis - 744 pages
...manners I" 51. fi) J Lives fn 1744, Mr. Collins quitted Oxford, and came to London a literary adventurer, with many projects in his head, and very little money in his pocket. He defigned a variety of works ; but his great fault was irrefolution ; befides which, the frequent calls... | |
 | Frank Brady, William Wimsatt - 1978 - 655 pages
...for what reason I know not that he told. He now (about 1744) came to London a literary adventurer, with many projects in his head, and very little money...many works; but his great fault was irresolution, or the frequent calls of immediate necessity broke his schemes, and suffered him to pursue no settled... | |
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