 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 far ungTOCiOUS...  The Idler, and Breakfast-table Companion - Page 1451837Full view - About this book
 | 1837 - 224 pages
...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...know — the miseries of subsisting by authorship ! "I'is a pretty appendage to a situation Uke your's or mine ; but a slavery, worse than all slavery,... | |
 | 1837 - 666 pages
...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...Southey, who (a single case almost) has made a fortune by book drudgery, what he has found them. < >, you know not, may you never know, the miseries of subsisting... | |
 | 1837 - 656 pages
...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...Southey, who (a single case almost) has made a fortune by book drudgery, what he has found them. O you know not, may you never know, the miseries of subsisting... | |
 | 1837 - 664 pages
...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...Southey, who (a single case almost) has made a fortune by book drudgery, what he has found them. O, you know not, may you never know, the miseries of subsisting... | |
 | 1837 - 662 pages
...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....Southey, who (a single case almost) has made a fortune by book drudgery, what he has found them. O, you know not, may yon never know, the miseries of subsisting... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 480 pages
...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...fortune by book-drudgery, what he has found them. Oh, you know not, may you never know, the miseries of subsisting by authorship ! 'Tis a pretty appendage... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1838 - 478 pages
...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...fortune by book-drudgery, what he has found them. Oh, you know not, may you never know, the miseries of subsisting by authorship! 'Tis a pretty appendage... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...make much of them, and live a century in them rather than turn slave to the booksellers. • » * * O, you know not, may you never know, the miseries...authorship! 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... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1838 - 546 pages
...bed, make much of them, and live a century in them rather than turn slave to the booksellers. * * * * O, you know not, may you never know, the miseries...authorship ! !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... | |
 | 1858 - 690 pages
...and live a century in them, rather than turn slave to the booksellers. Come not within their grasp. You know not, may you never 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... | |
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