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The History of Irish Periodical Literature: From the End of the 17th to the ... - Page 323
by Richard Robert Madden - 1867 - 531 pages
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The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal, Volume 5

English periodicals - 1837 - 666 pages
...may you never know, the miseries of subsisting by authorship. 'Tis a pretty appendage to a situation like yours or mine ; but a 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...
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The Idler, and Breakfast-table Companion, Volume 1, Issue 1

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...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 the master...
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The Idler, and Breakfast-table Companion, Volume 1, Issue 1

Great Britain - 1837 - 392 pages
...know — the miseries of subsisting by authorship ! 'Tis a pretty appendage to a situation like your's or mine ; but a slavery, worse than all slavery, to...free thoughts and voluntary numbers for ungracious taskwork. The booksellers hate us. The reason I take to be, that, contrary to other trades, in which...
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The Monthly Review

Books - 1837 - 656 pages
...may you never know, the miseries of subsisting by authorship ! 'Tis a pretty appendage to a situation like yours or mine ; but a slavery, worse than all...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...
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The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal, Volume 5

English periodicals - 1837 - 666 pages
...situation like yours or mine ; but a slavery, worse than all slavery, to be a bookseller's dependent, to drudge your brains for pots of ale and breasts...mutton, to change your FREE THOUGHTS and VOLUNTARY NUMBERS/OT tltigraCtOUt TASK-WORK.' " — Vol. ii. p. 8Q. This is all painfully true, except that we...
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The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and ..., Volume 1

Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 480 pages
...have no cause to complain of your readers. Believe me, " Your obliged and obedient servant, situation like yours or mine ; but a slavery, worse than all...FREE THOUGHTS and VOLUNTARY NUMBERS for ungracious TASKWORK. The booksellers hate us. The reason I take to be, that contrary to other trades, in which...
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The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works

Charles Lamb - 1838 - 478 pages
...cause to complain of your readers. Believe me, " Your obliged and obedient servant, " BVRON." situation like yours or mine; but a slavery, worse than all...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...
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The New-York review [ed. by F.L. Hawks]. Wanting no.6,8, Volume 2

Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...may you never know, the miseries of subsisting by authorship! Tis a pretty appendage to a situation like yours or mine : but a slavery worse than all...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...
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 18; Volume 40

Methodist Church - 1858 - 690 pages
...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 be a bookseller's dependent, to drudge your brain for pots of ale and breasts of mutton, to change your free thoughts...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 24

American periodicals - 1850 - 642 pages
...you never know ! the miseries of subsisting by authorship ! 'T is a pretty appendage to a situation like yours or mine ; but a slavery, worse than all...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...
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