 When it was known, it was necessarily admired: the King quoted, the courtiers studied, and the whole party of the royalists applauded it. Every eye watched for the golden shower which was to fall upon the author, who certainly was not without his part...  The General Biographical Dictionary - Page 465by Alexander Chalmers - 1813Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Butler - 1866 - 366 pages
...king, by proclamation, Declared a traitor through the nation. 9 See Prior's Dedication to his Poems. gave him reason to hope for places and employments of value and credit, but he never received them ; and the story of the king's presenting him with a purse of three hundred guineas... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1890 - 342 pages
...subjects traitors, strain hard. Was not the king, by proclamation, Declared a traitor through the nation. gave him reason to hope for places and employments of value and credit, but he never received them ; and the story of the king's presenting him with a purse of three hundred guineas... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 544 pages
...watched for the golden shower which was to fall upon the author, who certainly was not without his part in the general expectation. In 1664 the second part...says Wood, gave him reason to hope for ' places and emploments of value and ' credit;' but no such advantages did he ever ohtain. It is reported that the... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...certainly was not without his part in the general expectation. In 1 664 the second part appeared ; tho ives ~ ! onee gave him three hundred guineas, but of this temporary bounty I find no proof. Wood relates that... | |
 | 1879 - 406 pages
...watched for the golden shower which was to fall upon the author, who certainly was not without his part in the general expectation. In 1664 the second part...praised and elated. But praise was his whole reward." Butler died in 1680, so that your edition of Hubidras was not published until thirteen years after... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 488 pages
...golden shower which was to fall upon the author, who certainly wae not without his part in the gvntral expectation. In 1664 the second part appeared ; the...elated. But praise was his whole reward. Clarendon, saya Wood, gave him reason to hope for "places and employment* of value and credit ; " but no such... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - 1907 - 512 pages
...watched for the golden shower which was to fall upon the author, who certainly was not without his part in the general expectation. in 1664 the second part...credit, but no such advantages did he ever obtain. Oldham writes his famous lines of indignation: On Butler who can think without just rage, The glory... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - 1907 - 524 pages
...watched for the golden shower which was to fall upon the author, who certainly was not without his part in the general expectation. in 1664 the second part appeared; the curiosity of the nation was re&ndled and the writer was again praised and elated. But praise was his whole reward. Clarendon says... | |
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