Place yourself in my situation. Could you have hunted London for a publisher, endured all the alternate hot and cold water thrown on all your exertions; bargained for what sum they might be pleased to give; and, after all, canvassed, examined, nay quarrelled... Records of the Heart - Sida 102efter Estelle Anna Robinson Lewis - 1844 - 255 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1860 - 532 sidor
...friend in the world but himself to manage any thing of business, whether literary or pecuniary." * * * "Place yourself in my situation. Could you have hunted...to give ; and after all canvassed, examined, nay, quarreled over accounts the most intricate in the world? And again, after success had procured money,... | |
| Katherine Thomson - 1861 - 714 sidor
...friend in the world but himself to manage anything of business, whether literary or pecuniary.' * * * ' Place yourself in my situation. Could you have hunted...quarrelled over accounts the most intricate in the world ? And again, after success had procured money, what was I to do with it ? Though ignorant of business,... | |
| 1891 - 482 sidor
...taught you how little, in them, a young woman can do without assistance. Place yourself in my position. Could you have hunted London for a publisher, endured...pleased to give, and after all, canvassed, examined, nay quarelled over, accounts the most intricate in the world ? Then, for literary assistance, my proof... | |
| Catherine Jane Hamilton - 1893 - 356 sidor
...writes, "to manage anything of business, whether pecuniary or literary. Place yourself in my position ; could you have hunted London for a publisher, endured...alternate hot and cold water thrown on your exertions, canvassed, nay, quarrelled over accounts the most intricate in the world ? " Her intercourse with Mr.... | |
| Adriana Craciun - 2002 - 350 sidor
...woman can do without assistance" from male patrons (Blanchard, 1: 55). "Could you," she asks a friend, "have hunted London for a publisher; endured all the...quarrelled over accounts the most intricate in the world?" (Ibid.). Landon's publishing success in London came with unwanted sexual scandals, leading to her hasty... | |
| Patrick H. Vincent - 2004 - 300 sidor
...successful in the literary field: Your own literary pursuits must have taught you how little, in them, a young woman can do without assistance. Place yourself in my situation. Could you 143 have hunted London for a publisher; endured all the alternate hot and cold water thrown on your... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1873 - 794 sidor
...whether literary or pecuniary. Your own literary pursuits must have taught you how little, in them, a young woman can do without assistance. Place yourself...to give; and, after all, canvassed, examined, nay, quarreled over accounts the most intri252 253 cate in the world? And again, after success Lad procured... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1841 - 650 sidor
...whether literary or pecuniary. Your own literary pursuits must have taught you how little, in them, a young woman can do without assistance. Place yourself...publisher, endured all the alternate hot and cold j water thrown on your exertions ; bargained for what sum they might be pleased to give ; and, after... | |
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