 | Theophilus Cibber, Robert Shiells - Poets, English - 1753 - 418 pages
...SAMUEL BOYSE. 169 had not a fturt, a coat, or any kind of apparel to put OB ; the fbeets in which be lay were carried to the pawnbroker's, and he was obliged to be confined to bed, with no other covering than a blanket. He had little fupport but what he got by writing letters... | |
 | Robert Shiells - 1753 - 366 pages
...SAMUEL BOYSE. 1% had not a Hurt, a coat, or any kind of apparel to pot on; the (beets in which he by were carried to the pawnbroker's, and he was obliged to be confined to bed, with no other covering than a blanket. He had little fupport but what he got by writing letter*... | |
 | Biography - 1761 - 474 pages
...coat, or any kind of apparel to put on. The {heets in which he lay were carried to the pawnbrokers } and he Was obliged to be confined to his bed with no other covering than a blanket. He fupported himfelf fix weeks in this diftrefsful fituation by writing verfes for the Magazines ; and... | |
 | 1775 - 868 pages
...quickfilver and all, that be had neither, fliirt, coat, nor any other kind of apparel to pui-on. The jrjeels in which he lay were carried to the pawn-broker's; and he was obliged bs confined to his bed wi'.h no other covering than a blanket. Hefuppoited hiiitfelf fix weeks in this... | |
 | William Giles (didactic writer) - 1775 - 336 pages
...wretchednefs, that he had neither fhirt, coat, nor any other kind of apparel to put on. The fheets in which he lay were carried to the pawnbroker's ;...was obliged to be confined to his bed with no other other covering than a blanket. He fupported himfelf fix weeks in this diftrefsful fituation, by writing... | |
 | Bibliography - 1776 - 646 pages
...human wrctchednefs, that he had neither mirt, coat, nor any other kind of apparel to put on. The fteets in which he lay were carried to the pawnbroker's ; and he was obliged to be confined to his bed with 110 other covering than a blanket. He fupported himfelf fix weeks in this diftrefsful fituation, by... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1036 pages
...whom this account is chiefly taken, " a fliirt, a coat, or any kind of apparel to put on, the flieets in which he lay were carried to the pawn-broker's, and he was obliged to be confined to bed with no other covering than a blanket. Whoever had fcen him in his fludy, muft have thought the... | |
 | G.W. Johnson - Biography - 1795 - 414 pages
...obliged to be confined to bed, with no other covering than a blanket ; and he had little fupporfc* but what he got by writing letters to his friends in the moft abjedct ftyle. His mode of ftudying and writing was curious : he fat "up in bed, \vitb the blanket... | |
 | Stephen Jones - Biography - 1799 - 456 pages
...obliged to be confined to bed, »nth DO other covering than a blanket ; and he had tittle support, but what he got by writing letters to his friends in the most abjeQ style. His mode of studying and writing was curious; he sat u¡> in bed, with the blanket... | |
 | History - 1802 - 502 pages
...extremity of human wretchednefs, had not a ihirt, a coat, or any kind of apparel to put on ; the meets in which he lay were carried to the pawnbroker's,...bed, with no other covering than a blanket. He had but little fupport but what he got by writing letters to his friends in the moil abje£t ftyle, but... | |
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Boyse, reduced to the last extremity of human wretchedness, had not a shirt, a coat, or any kind of apparel, to put on ; the sheets in which he lay were carried to the pawn-broker's, and he was obliged to be confined to his bed with no other covering... 
