...dirty bookseller for so much a sheet of letterpress" or when his Lordship said, speaking of Milton "He knew that the real price of his work was immortality and that posterity would pay it." Posterity is a poor paymaster and immortality a small compensation for present penury. Such ideas...

...is worthy of consideration at this time. In his speech Lord. Camden said: — reward of his labor; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality and that posterity would pay it. The position of his opponents is well illustrated by the following quotation from Terril in his...

...instructed and delighted the world. . ' When the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his Para' dise Lost, he did not reject it and commit his poem to...work was -* immortality, and that posterity would pay it.' 'This is tacitly assuming that the first-rate works of genius, of •which we get at most two...

...commit his poem to the flames, nor did he accept the misarable pittance as the reward of his labour; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it. Some authors are as careless about profit as others are rapacious of it; and what situation would...

...commit his poem to the flames, nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labour; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it. Some authors are as careless about profit as others are rapacious of it; and what situation would...

...felt it 'unworthy' to 'traffic with a dirty Bookseller': when Milton accepted £5 for Paradise Last, he 'knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it' (Southey 's comment is scathing: 'Is it possible that this declamation should impose upon any man?').10...

...turned to the wider question of copyright. He poured scorn on Lord Camden's famous remark that Milton 'knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it',25 asking on what principle men of letters were deprived of perpetual property in their own labours,...

...such Men [sic] to traffic with a dirty Bookseller for so much as a Sheet of Letter-press. [Milton] ... knew that the real price of his Work was Immortality, and that Posterity would pay it' (Camden [1774] 1975, p. 54; cited by Rose, p. 104-5). The pecuniary rewards to which authors are...

...his poem " to the flames, nor did he accept the miser" able pittance as the reward of his labour ; " he knew that the real price of his work was " immortality, and that posterity would pay " it." The booksellers or purchasers of copyright, upon the present occasion, seem to be entirely hors...

...his poem to the flames, nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labours. No. He knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it.' Mr. Mill has seldom, if ever, taken a premeditated part in a debate without giving it an entirely...