| Addison Peale Russell - 1890 - 342 páginas
...throw yourself on the world without any rational plan of support beyond what the chance of employment of booksellers would afford you ? Throw yourself rather,...sir, from the steep Tarpeian rock slap-dash, headlong down upon iron spikes. I have known many authors want bread : some repining, others enjoying the sweet... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1892 - 366 páginas
...BERNARD BARTON.' January g, 1823. THROW yourself on the world without any rational plan of support beyond what the chance employ of booksellers would...Tarpeian rock slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you had but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century... | |
| Edward Verrall Lucas - 1893 - 212 páginas
...adviser. Lamb's reply is for all time : 'Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan of support, beyond what the chance employ of booksellers would...rock, slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you had but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1894 - 414 páginas
...LETTER CCVII.] January 8, 1823 " Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan of support, beyond what the chance employ of booksellers would...rock, slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you had but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century... | |
| Duncan Campbell - 1898 - 232 páginas
...subject. " Elia " at once replied, " Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan of support beyond what the chance employ of booksellers would...Tarpeian rock slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes." Barton had interesting correspondence also with Jeffrey, Southey, Byron, Sir Walter Scott, and the... | |
| John Cann Bailey - 1899 - 324 páginas
...prudent. It is an admirable letter. " ' Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan of support, beyond what the chance employ of booksellers would...rock, slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you had but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1899 - 184 páginas
...BERNARD BARTON.* January 9, 1823. "Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan of support, beyond what the chance employ of booksellers would...rock, slap-dash headlong, upon iron spikes. If you had but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1903 - 888 páginas
...Lamb, too, in 1823 wrote to him : 'Throw yourself on the world, without any rational plan of support ?V .-ither than turn slave to the booksellers. They ire Turks and Tartars when they have poor authors... | |
| Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 486 páginas
...BERNARD BARTON January 9th, 1823. " Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan of support, beyond what the chance employ of booksellers would...Tarpeian rock slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you had but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century... | |
| Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1905 - 540 páginas
...BERNARD BARTON 9 Jan., 1823. " *" I "HROW yourself on the world without any rational plan of J. support, beyond what the chance employ of Booksellers would...rock, slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you had but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century... | |
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