| 1837 - 656 páginas
...consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century in them, rather then turn slave to the booksellers. They are Turks and...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... | |
| 1837 - 224 páginas
...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 [No. 7, NEW SERIES.] Tartars when they have poor authors at their beck. Hitherto you have been at arm's... | |
| 1837 - 392 páginas
...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 [No. 7, NEW SERIES.] Tartars when they have poor authors at their beck. Hitherto you have been at arm's... | |
| Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 480 páginas
...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...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
...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...want for bread, some repining, others enjoying the blessed security of a spunging-house, all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers—what... | |
| 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 - 562 páginas
...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...have poor authors at their beck. Hitherto you have l•ceu at arm's length from them. Come not within their grasp. I have known many authors want for... | |
| Bernard Barton - 1850 - 432 páginas
...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...security of a counting-house — all agreeing they would rather have been tailors, weavers, — what not? — rather than the things they were. I have... | |
| Thomas Carter - 1850 - 248 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, weavers —... | |
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