 Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan of support, beyond what the chance employ of booksellers would afford you ! ! ! " Throw yourself rather, my dear Sir, from the steep Tarpeian rock slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you had but...  Memoir, Letters, and Poems of Bernard Barton - Page 24by Bernard Barton - 1850 - 393 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Great Britain - 1837 - 392 pages
...without any rational plan of support, beyond what the chance employ of booksellers would afford you ! Throw yourself rather, my dear sir, from the steep...turn slave to the booksellers. They are Turks and [No. 7, NEW SERIES.] Tartars when they have poor authors at their beck. Hitherto you have been at arm's... | |
 | Great Britain - 1837 - 224 pages
...without any rational plan of support, beyond what the chance employ of booksellers would afford you ! Throw yourself rather, my dear sir, from the steep...turn slave to the booksellers. They are Turks and [No. 7, NEW SERIES.] Tartars when they have poor authors at their beck. Hitherto you have been at arm's... | |
 | Books - 1837 - 656 pages
...without any rational plan of support, beyond what the chance employ of booksellers would afford you ! " ' Throw yourself rather, my dear sir, from the steep...make much of them, and live a century in them, rather then turn slave to the booksellers. They are Turks and Tartars when they have poor authors at their... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...without any rational plan of support beyond what the chance employ of booksellers would afford you ! Throw yourself rather, my dear Sir, from the steep...in them rather than turn slave to the booksellers. • » * * O, you know not, may you never know, the miseries of subsisting by authorship! Tis a pretty... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1858 - 690 pages
...which he held a clerkship, and rely on literature for subsistence, he wrote thus : " If you have bat five consolatory minutes between the desk and the...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.... | |
 | James Carter, Thomas Carter - Biography & Autobiography - 1845 - 486 pages
...like Prior's fellowship, a last and sure resource." Mr. Lamb, in answer to the same person, says, " If you have but five consolatory minutes between the...in them, rather than turn slave to the booksellers. I have known many authors want for bread, some repining, others enjoying the blessed security of a... | |
 | Bernard Barton, Edward FitzGerald - 1849 - 456 pages
...any rational plan of support beyond what the chance employ of booksellers would afford you ! ! ! " Throw yourself rather, my dear Sir, from the steep...and the bed, make much of them, and live a century hi them, rather than turn slave to the booksellers. They are Turks and Tartars when they have poor... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1849 - 688 pages
...without any rational plan of support beyond what the chance employ of booksellers would afford you 1 1 1 Throw yourself rather, my dear sir, from the steep...Tarpeian rock, slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes." Happily, Bernard Barton took his advice, and lived out his innocent life in ease and contentment. This... | |
 | Thomas Carter - Biography & Autobiography - 1850 - 248 pages
...like Prior's fellowship, a last and sure resource." Mr. Lamb, in answer to the same person, says, " If you have but five consolatory minutes between the...in them, rather than turn slave to the booksellers. I have known many authors want for bread, some repining, others enjoying the blessed security of a... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1855 - 620 pages
...rock, slap-dash, headlui, : upon iron spikes. If you have but five consolatory minutes between T'.C desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century in them, ratter than turn slave to the booksellers. They are Turks and Tartars when tl— have poor authors... | |
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