 | Stratton Duluth Brooks - 1906
...In the meantime I must not omit an adventure, as being very extraordinary, which happened to me in 1703, when I was given away in charity to a blind man. But indeed this was a mistake, the person who gave me having heedlessly thrown me into the hat among a pennyworth of farthings."... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1907 - 112 páginas
...language, entitled from me, ' The Splendid Shilling.' The second adventure, which I must not omit, happened to me in the year 1703, when I was given...in charity to a blind man ; but indeed this was by a mistake, the person who gave me having heedlessly thrown me into the hat among a pennyworth of farthings."... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854
...language, entitled from me, c The Splendid Shilling.' b The second adventure, which I must not omit, happened to me in the year 1703, when I was given...in charity to a blind man; but indeed this was by a mistake, the person who gave me having heedlessly thrown me into the hat among a pennyworth of farthings.'... | |
 | William Murison - 1926 - 430 páginas
...burlesque poem in the British language, entituled from me The Splendid Shilling. The second adventure happened to me in the year 1703, when I was given...in charity to a blind man; but indeed this was by mistake, the person who gave me having heedlessly thrown me into the hat among a pennyworth of farthings.... | |
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The first was, my being in a poet's pocket, who was so taken with the brightness and novelty of my appearance, that it gave occasion to the finest burlesque poem in the British language, entitled from me, 
