 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 páginas
...yet have (he excuse that we do it for a ppor subsistence ; but what can be urged in their defence, who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble,...wantonness take pains to make themselves ridiculous ? Horace 1781. rnore liberal than Mr. William Whitehead, in his Elegy to Lord Villiers," in which under... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 páginas
...yet have the excuse that we do it for a poor subsistence ; but what can be urged in their defence, .who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble,...wantonness take pains to make themselves ridiculous ? Horace was certainly in the right where he said, ' That no man is satisfied with his own condition.'... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 436 páginas
...yet have the excuse that we do it for a poor subsistence ; but what can be urged in their defence, who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble,...wantonness take pains to make themselves ridiculous ? Horace was certainly in the right, where he said, " That no man is satisfied with his own condition."... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 páginas
...yet have the excuse, that we do it for a poor subsistence ; but what can be urged in their defence, who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble,...wantonness take pains to make themselves ridiculous ? Horace was certainly in the right, where he said, ' That no man is satisfied with his own condition.'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 506 páginas
...yet have the excuse that we do it for a poor subsistence ; but what can be urged in their defence, who not having the vocation of poverty to scribble,...wantonness take pains to make themselves ridiculous ? Horace was certainly in the right where he said, 'That no man is satisfied with his own condition.'... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 páginas
...than a wit.» excuse, that we do it for a poor subsistence ; but what can be urged in their defence, who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble,...wantonness take pains to make themselves ridiculous ? Horace was certainly in the right, where he said, 'That no man is satisfied with his own condition.'... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 páginas
...than a wit.» excuse, that we do it for a poor subsistence ; but what can be urged in their defence, who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble,...wantonness take pains to make themselves ridiculous ? Horace was certainly in the right, where he said, 'That no man is satisfied with his own condition.'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 444 páginas
...yet have the excuse that we do it for a poor subsistence ; but what can be urged in their defence, who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble, out of mere wantoaness take pains to make themselves ridiculous? Horace was certainly in the right where he said,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 páginas
...yet have the excuse, that we do it for a poor subsistence ; but what can be urged in their defence, who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble,...wantonness take pains to make themselves ridiculous ? Horace was certainly in the right, where he said, ' That no man is satisfied with his own condition.'... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 344 páginas
...yet have the excuse, that we do it for a poor subsistence ; but what can be urged in their defence, who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble,...wantonness take pains to make themselves ridiculous ? Horace was certainly in the right, where he said, ' That no man is satisfied with his own condition.'... | |
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We who write, if we want the talent, yet have the excuse that we do it for a poor subsistence; but what can be urged in their defence, who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble, out of mere wantonness take pains to make themselves ridiculous... 
