 Tis a pretty appendage to a situation like yours or mine ; but a slavery, worse than all slavery, to be a bookseller's dependant, to drudge your brains for pots of ale and breasts of mutton, to change your free thoughts and voluntary numbers for ungracious...  The Idler, and Breakfast-table Companion - Sida 1451837Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1837 - 666 sidor
...never know, the miseries of subsisting by authorship. 'Tis a pretty appendage to a situation like yours or mine ; but a slavery, worse than all slavery, to be a bookseller's dependent, to drudge your brains for pots of ale and breasts of mutton, to change your FREE THOUGHTS... | |
 | 1837 - 392 sidor
...never know — the miseries of subsisting by authorship ! 'Tis a pretty appendage to a situation like your's or mine ; but a slavery, worse than all slavery,...free thoughts and voluntary numbers for ungracious taskwork. The booksellers hate us. The reason I take to be, that, contrary to other trades, in which... | |
 | 1837 - 656 sidor
...know, the miseries of subsisting by authorship ! 'Tis a pretty appendage to a situation like yours or mine ; but a slavery, worse than all slavery, to...pots of ale, and breasts of mutton, to change your FRBE THOUGHTS and VOLUNTARY NUMEERS for ungracious TASK-WORK. The booksellers hate us. The leason I... | |
 | 1837 - 666 sidor
...situation like yours or mine ; but a slavery, worse than all slavery, to be a bookseller's dependent, to drudge your brains for pots of ale and breasts...mutton, to change your FREE THOUGHTS and VOLUNTARY NUMBERS/OT tltigraCtOUt TASK-WORK.' " — Vol. ii. p. 8Q. This is all painfully true, except that we... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 480 sidor
...to complain of your readers. Believe me, " Your obliged and obedient servant, situation like yours or mine ; but a slavery, worse than all slavery, to...FREE THOUGHTS and VOLUNTARY NUMBERS for ungracious TASKWORK. The booksellers hate us. The reason I take to be, that contrary to other trades, in which... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1838 - 546 sidor
...know, the miseries of subsisting by authorship ! !Tis a pretty appendage to a situation like yours or mine : but a slavery worse than all slavery, to...FREE THOUGHTS and VOLUNTARY NUMBERS for ungracious TASK-WORK." We had marked several other passages for quotation, but fear we have already trespassed... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1838 - 478 sidor
...complain of your readers. Believe me, " Your obliged and obedient servant, " BVRON." situation like yours or mine; but a slavery, worse than all slavery, to...of ale and breasts of mutton, to change your FREE The booksellers hate us. The reason I take to be, that contrary to other trades, in which the master... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 sidor
...never know, the miseries of subsisting by authorship! Tis a pretty appendage to a situation like yours or mine : but a slavery worse than all slavery, to...your brains for pots of ale and breasts of mutton, to cluitiffK your FREE THOUGHTS and vOLUNTARY NUMBERS for ungracious TASK-WORK." We had marked several... | |
 | 1858 - 690 sidor
...know, the miseries of subsisting by authorship. It is a pretty appendage to a situation like yours or mine, but a slavery worse than all slavery to be a bookseller's dependent, to drudge your brain for pots of ale and breasts of mutton, to change your free thoughts... | |
 | 1850 - 642 sidor
...know ! the miseries of subsisting by authorship ! 'T is a pretty appendage to a situation like yours or mine ; but a slavery, worse than all slavery, to...free thoughts and voluntary numbers for ungracious task-work. The booksellers hate us. The reason I take to be, that, contrary to other trades, in which... | |
| |
