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 have but... Macmillan's Magazine - Page 1701887Full view - About this book
| Great Britain - 1837 - 392 pages
...him, to hie unfortunate brother Authors, whose names are " Legion :" — " Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan of support, beyond what...rock, slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you have but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century... | |
| Great Britain - 1837 - 224 pages
...him, to Ыs unfortunate brother Authors, whose names are "Legion :" — " Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan of support, beyond what...rock, slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you have but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century... | |
| Books - 1837 - 656 pages
...folly as he had been con templating. Part of the remonstrance we copy. " ' Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan of support, beyond what...Tarpeian rock, slapdash headlong upon iron spikes. If you have but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century... | |
| Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...banking-house, and betaking himself to literature for a subsistence :—" Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan of support beyond what the...rock, slap-dash, headlong upon iron spikes. If you have but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century... | |
| Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 480 pages
...merit, which a further perusal of the printed 18 " 9th January, 1823. " Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan of support beyond what the...rock, slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you have but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1838 - 478 pages
...their merit, which a further perusal of the printed 18 TO BERNARD BARTON. " Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan of support beyond what the chance employ of booksellers would afford you! " 9th January, 1823. " Throw yourself rather, my dear sir, from the steep Tarpeian rock, slap-dash... | |
| American periodicals - 1850 - 642 pages
...entirely to his pen. ELIA ON DEPENDENCE UPON BOOKSELLERS. 9th Januar)', 1823. Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan of support beyond what the...rock, slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you have but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century... | |
| Bernard Barton - 1849 - 454 pages
...would perhaps gratify you to hear expressed, for I believe, from what I " Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan of support beyond what the...rock, slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you have but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century... | |
| Bernard Barton, Edward FitzGerald - 1849 - 456 pages
...you to hear expressed, for I believe, from what I "9M January, 1823. " Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan of support beyond what the...rock, slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you have but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1849 - 688 pages
...Throw yourself on the world I " exclaimed that man of the kindliest heart and the soundest judgment, " 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... | |
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