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" Throw yourself, rather, my dear sir, from the steep Tarpeian rock slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you had 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.... "
Selections from the Poems and Letters of Bernard Barton - Página xix
de Bernard Barton, Edward FitzGerald - 1849 - 363 páginas
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The Monthly Review

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?...
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The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal, Volumen 5

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...
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The Idler, and Breakfast-table Companion, Volumen 1,Número 1

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...
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The Idler, and Breakfast-table Companion, Volumen 1,Número 1

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...
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The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters ..., Volumen 1

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...
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The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works

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...
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Memoirs of a Working Man

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 —...
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Selections from the Poems and Letters of Bernard Barton

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...
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Memoir, Letters, and Poems of Bernard Barton

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...
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A Continuation of the Memoirs of a Working Man

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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