 I have known many authors want for bread, some repining, others envying the blessed security of a counting-house, all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers — what not? rather than the things they were. I have known some starved, some to...  The Idler, and Breakfast-table Companion - Sida 1451837Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1850 - 642 sidor
...security of a counting-house — all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers — what not? — rather than the things they were. I have known some...dying in a workhouse. You know not what a rapacious, dishonest set these booksellers are. Ask even Southey, who (a single case almost) has made a fortune... | |
 | James Carter, Thomas Carter - 1845 - 486 sidor
...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 sidor
...of a counting-house — all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers, — what not ? — rather than the things they were. I have known some...dying in a workhouse. You know not what a rapacious, dishonest set these booksellers are. Ask even Southey, who (a single case almost) has made a fortune... | |
 | Bernard Barton, Edward FitzGerald - 1849 - 456 sidor
...of a counting-house — all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers, — what not ?— rather than the things they were. I have known some...dying in a workhouse. You know not what a rapacious, dishonest set these booksellers are. Ask even Southey, who (a single case almost) has made a fortune... | |
 | Bernard Barton - 1849 - 454 sidor
...counting-house — all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers, — what not ? — rather thun the things they were. I have known some starved, some...dying in a workhouse. You know not what a rapacious, dishonest set these booksellers are. Ask even Southey, who (a single case almost) has made a fortune... | |
 | Bernard Barton - 1849 - 562 sidor
...been tailors, weavers, — what not ? — rather than the things they were. I have known somestarved, some to go mad, one dear friend literally dying in a workhouse. You know not what a rapacious, dishonest set these liooksellers are. Ask even Southey, who (a single case almost) has made a fortune... | |
 | Thomas Carter - 1850 - 248 sidor
...security of a sponging-house ; all agreeing they had rather have been tailors, weavers — what not? — rather than the things they were. I have known some starved, some go mad ; one dear friend literally dying in a workhouse ! You know not — may you never know — the... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1852 - 684 sidor
...to go mad, one dear friend literally dying in a workhouse. You know not what a rapacious, dishonest U~6x5r \ l,y book-drudgery, what he has found them. Oh, you know not, may you never know ! the miseries of subsisting... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1855 - 620 sidor
...counting-house, — all agreeing that they would rather have been tailors, weavers, — what not 1 rather than the things they were. I have known some starved, some go mad, one dear friend- literally dying in n. worl.fi.'aso. Oh ! you know not — may you never know... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1853 - 466 sidor
...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, some to go mad, one dear friend literally died in a workhouse. * * * Oh, you know not, may you never know, the miseries of subother employment,... | |
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