 | 1837 - 392 páginas
...and [No. 7, NEW SERIES.] Tartars when they have poor authors at their beck. Hitherto you have been at arm's length from them. Come not within their grasp....want for bread, some repining, others enjoying the blessed security of a epunging house ; all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers —... | |
 | 1837 - 224 páginas
...and [No. 7, NEW SERIES.] Tartars when they have poor authors at their beck. Hitherto you have been at arm's length from them. Come not within their grasp....want for bread, some repining, others enjoying the blessed security of a spunging house ; all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers— what... | |
 | 1837 - 656 páginas
...booksellers. They are Turks and Tartars when they have poor authors at their beck. Hitherto you have been at arm's length from them. Come not within their grasp....want for bread, some repining, others enjoying the blessed security of a spunging-house, all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers — whatnot?... | |
 | 1837 - 666 páginas
...think of literature as a profession, or as at all connected with the means of life, he says, — " ' I have known many authors want for bread, some repining, others enjoying the blessed security of a spunging-house, all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers — what... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 480 páginas
...booksellers. They are Turks and Tartars •when they have poor authors at their beck. Hitherto you have been at arm's length from them. Come not within their grasp....want for bread, some repining, others enjoying the blessed security of a spunging-house, all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers — what... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1838 - 478 páginas
...booksellers. They are Turks and Tartars •when they have poor authors at their beck. Hitherto you have been at arm's length from them. Come not within their grasp....want for bread, some repining, others enjoying the blessed security of a spunging-house, all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers—what... | |
 | 1850 - 642 páginas
...booksellers. They are Turks and Tartars when they have poor authors at their beck . Hitherto you have been at arm's length from them. Come not within their grasp....— rather than the things they were. I have known some starved, some to go mad, one dear friend literally dying in a workhouse. You know not what a rapacious,... | |
 | James Carter, Thomas Carter - 1845 - 486 páginas
...the bed, make much of them, and live a century in them, rather than turn slave to the booksellers. I have known many authors want for bread, some repining, others enjoying the blessed security of a sponging-house ; all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, "eavers —... | |
 | Bernard Barton, Edward FitzGerald - 1849 - 456 páginas
...booksellers. They are Turks and Tartars when they have poor authors at their beck. Hitherto you have been at arm's length from them. Come not within their grasp....?— rather than the things they were. I have known some starved, some to go mad, one dear friend literally dying in a workhouse. You know not what a rapacious,... | |
 | Bernard Barton, Edward FitzGerald - 1849 - 454 páginas
...booksellers. They are Turks and Tartars when they have poor authors at their beck. Hitherto you have been at arm's length from them. Come not within their grasp....have been tailors, weavers, — what not ? — rather thun the things they were. I have known some starved, some to go mad, one dear friend literally dying... | |
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If you have but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century in them, rather than turn slave to the booksellers. They are Turks and Tartars when they have poor authors at their beck . Hitherto you have been... 
