 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...  poems and letters - Side xaf bernard barton - 1853Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1837 - 666 sider
...repining, others enjoying the blessed security of a spunging-house, all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers — what not? rather than the things...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 sider
...repining, others enjoying the blessed security of a epunging house ; all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers — what not { rather than the things...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 sider
...security of a spunging house ; all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers— what not e rather than the things they were. I have known 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 sider
...security of a spunging-house, all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers — whatnot? rather than the things they were. I have known 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 sider
...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 sider
...repining, others enjoying the blessed security of 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, gome to go mad, one dear friend literally dying in a workhouse. You know not what a rapacious set these... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 480 sider
...repining, others enjoying the blessed security of a spunging-house, all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers — what not? rather than the things...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 sider
...blessed security of a spunging-house, all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers—what not ? rather than the things they were. I have known...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,... | |
 | James Carter, Thomas Carter - 1845 - 486 sider
...blessed security of a sponging-house ; all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, "eavers — what not ? — rather than the things they were. I have known some starved, some go mad ; one dear friend literally dying in a workhouse J You know not — may you never know — the... | |
 | Bernard Barton - 1849 - 454 sider
...— others enjoying the blest security of a counting-house — all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers, — what not ? — rather than the...fortune by book-drudgery, what he has found them. observe of your mind, that you are above flattery. — To come to the point, you deserve success ;... | |
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