 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...  Memoir, Letters, and Poems of Bernard Barton - Page 24by Bernard Barton - 1850 - 393 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Books - 1837 - 656 pages
...has found them. O you know not, may you never know, the miseries of subsisting by authorship ! 'Tis a pretty appendage to a situation like yours or mine...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... | |
 | English periodicals - 1837 - 666 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1837 - 224 pages
...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, 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... | |
 | English periodicals - 1837 - 664 pages
...has found them. O, you know not, may you never know, the miseries of subsisting by authorship. 'Tis a pretty appendage to a situation like yours or mine...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... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...booksellers. • » * * O, you know not, may you never know, the miseries of subsisting by authorship! Tis a pretty appendage to a situation like yours or mine...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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1838 - 478 pages
...have no cause to complain of your readers. Believe me, " Your obliged and obedient servant, " BVRON." situation like yours or mine; but a slavery, worse...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... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1858 - 690 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1850 - 260 pages
...situation like yours or mine ; but slavery worse than all slavery, to be a bookseller's dependent ; — to drudge your brains for pots of ale and breasts...thoughts and voluntary numbers for ungracious task-work." Even Shakspeare abhorred the constant infringement of the soul's privacy implied in a career which... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1851 - 964 pages
...have no cause to complain of your readers. BeUeve me, " Your obliged and obedient servant. " BYBOX." situation like yours or mine ; but a slavery, worse...of ale and breasts of mutton, to change your FREE THODOHTS and VOLUNTARY NUMBERS for Ungnifinux TASKWORK. The booksellers hate us. Tin: reason I take... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1852 - 684 pages
...has found them. Oh, you know not, may you never know ! the miseries of subsisting by authorship. Tis voluntar)1 numbers for ungracious task-work. Those fellows hate ив. The reason I take to !*•, that... | |
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