 | 1837 - 666 páginas
...a spunging-house, all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers — what not? rather than the things they were. I have known some starved, some...dying in a workhouse. You know not what a rapacious set these booksellers are. Ask even Southey, who (a single case almost) has made a fortune by book... | |
 | 1837 - 392 páginas
...epunging house ; all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers — what not { rather than the things they were. I have known some starved, some...dying in a workhouse. You know not what a rapacious set these booksellers are. Ask even Southey, who (a single case almost) has made a fortune by book-drudgery,... | |
 | 1837 - 224 páginas
...spunging house ; all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers— what not e rather than the things they were. I have known some starved, some...dying in a workhouse. You know not what a rapacious set these booksellers are. Ask even Southey, who (a single case almost) has made a fortune by book-drudgery,... | |
 | 1837 - 656 páginas
...a spunging-house, all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers — whatnot? rather than the things they were. I have known some starved, some...dying in a workhouse. You know not what a rapacious set these booksellers are. Ask even Southey, who (a single case almost) has made a fortune by book... | |
 | 1837 - 664 páginas
...spunging-house, all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers — what not f rather than thn things they •were. I have known some starved, some...dying in a workhouse. You know not what a rapacious set these booksellers are. Ask even Southey, who (a single case almost) has made a fortune by book... | |
 | 1837 - 662 páginas
...been tailors, weavers — what not? rather than the things they were. I have known some starved, gome to go mad, one dear friend literally dying in a workhouse. You know not what a rapacious set these booksellers are. Ask even Southey, who (a single case almost) has made a fortune by book... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 480 páginas
...a spunging-house, all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers — what not? rather than the things they were. I have known some starved, some...dying in a workhouse. You know not what a rapacious set these booksellers are. Ask even Southey, who (a single case almost) has made a fortune by book-drudgery,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1838 - 478 páginas
...a spunging-house, all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers—what not ? rather than the things they were. I have known some starved, some...dying in a workhouse. You know not what a rapacious set these booksellers are. Ask even Southey, who (a single case almost) has made a fortune by book-drudgery,... | |
 | 1850 - 642 páginas
...counting-house — all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers — what not? — rather than the things they were. I have known some starved, some...a fortune by bookdrudgery, what he has found them. O, you know not, may you never know ! the miseries of subsisting by authorship ! 'T is a pretty appendage... | |
 | Bernard Barton, Edward FitzGerald - 1849 - 562 páginas
...been tailors, weavers, — what not ? — rather than the things they were. I have known somestarved, some to go mad, one dear friend literally dying in...You know not what a rapacious, dishonest set these liooksellers are. Ask even Southey, who (a single case almost) has made a fortune by book-drudgery,... | |
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I have known many authors want for bread, some repining, others envying the blessed security of a countinghouse, all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers — what not ? rather than the things they were. I have known some starved, some to... 
