Shadows of the Old BooksellersBell and Daldy, 1865 - 320페이지 |
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... pounds , restless at the want of occupation , and envying the great merchant adventurers congregating in the Exchange , whose ships brought the produce of every land to the port of London . He spreads his new books and his old upon a ...
... pounds , restless at the want of occupation , and envying the great merchant adventurers congregating in the Exchange , whose ships brought the produce of every land to the port of London . He spreads his new books and his old upon a ...
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... pounds , he had probably other uses for his ready money than to engage in an investment which was very likely to be altogether lost , in a general repudiation of State obligations . There are no distinct traces of the practice of paying ...
... pounds , he had probably other uses for his ready money than to engage in an investment which was very likely to be altogether lost , in a general repudiation of State obligations . There are no distinct traces of the practice of paying ...
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... pounds , subscribed the same into the South Sea Company , it being the condition that the sub- scribers should ... pounds of the company's stock that before was sold at one hundred and twenty pounds ( at which time Mr. Guy was possess ...
... pounds , subscribed the same into the South Sea Company , it being the condition that the sub- scribers should ... pounds of the company's stock that before was sold at one hundred and twenty pounds ( at which time Mr. Guy was possess ...
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Charles Knight. was possess pounds of one thousand conside to the began to ( for th above it arose L. A the last thus season I bavings He was and be fol selling or 2- character w question w When Sr L 1000 per follow his beat = He does ...
Charles Knight. was possess pounds of one thousand conside to the began to ( for th above it arose L. A the last thus season I bavings He was and be fol selling or 2- character w question w When Sr L 1000 per follow his beat = He does ...
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... pounds , subscribed the same Sea Company , it being the condition scribers should receive an annual inte cent . upon their respective subscript same should be discharged by Parlia the subsequent ten years , when he wa at a moderate rate ...
... pounds , subscribed the same Sea Company , it being the condition scribers should receive an annual inte cent . upon their respective subscript same should be discharged by Parlia the subsequent ten years , when he wa at a moderate rate ...
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acquaintance Addison amongst Anecdotes appear Barn Elms Bible Boswell Cadell called catalogue Cave century Chapter character Charles Clarissa coffee-house common Company copies Curll described Dodsley Dryden Dunciad early edition Edmund Curll eminent England English famous father fortune genius Goldsmith guineas History honour hundred Jacob Tonson John Dunton John Newbery Johnson Kit-Cat Club Kit-Cat portraits knowledge labour Lackington ladies learning letter Lintott literary literature Little Britain London looked Lord master ment Millar never Newbery Nichols novel old booksellers paper Parliament Paul Whitehead Paul's Churchyard period poem poet poor Pope pounds present printed profit published Ralph Griffiths reputation Review Richardson Robert Dodsley Samuel Richardson says scarcely seller selling shadow shillings Society sold South Sea Company Stationers Strahan Street success Thomas Gent Thomas Guy tion town trade translation volume write written wrote young
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89 페이지 - now you talk of translators, what is your method of managing them ? ' ' Sir,' replied he, ' these are the saddest pack of rogues in the world : in a hungry fit, they'll swear they understand all the languages in the universe. I have known one of them take down a Greek book upon my counter and cry, "Ah, this is Hebrew, and must read it from the latter end.
103 페이지 - On the day the book was first vended, a crowd of authors besieged the shop ; entreaties, advices, threats of law and battery, nay cries of treason, were all employed to hinder the coming out of the " Dunciad ; " on the other side, the booksellers and hawkers made as great efforts to procure it.
215 페이지 - This person was no other than the philanthropic bookseller in St. Paul's Churchyard, who has written so many little books for children : he called himself their friend; but he was the friend of all mankind. He was no sooner alighted, but he was in haste to be gone; for he was ever on business of the utmost importance, and was at that time actually compiling materials for the history of on
187 페이지 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
169 페이지 - I am guilty, I own, of meannesses which poverty unavoidably brings with it, my reflections are filled with repentance for my imprudence, but not with any remorse for being a villain, that may be a character you unjustly charge me with.
89 페이지 - Now damn them ! what if they should put it into the newspaper, how you and I went together to Oxford ? what would I care ? If I should go down into Sussex, they would say I was gone to the Speaker. But what of that ? If my son were but big enough to go on with the business, by G — d I would keep as good company as old Jacob.
201 페이지 - I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation ; English, Scotch, and Irish, Whig and Tory, churchman and sectary, freethinker, and religionist, patriot and courtier, united in their rage against the man who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of Charles I. and the earl of Strafford...
202 페이지 - Strafford ; and after the first ebullitions of their fury were over, what was still more mortifying, the book seemed to sink into oblivion. Mr Millar told me, that in a twelvemonth he sold only forty-five copies of it. I scarcely, indeed, heard of one man in the three kingdoms, considerable for rank or letters, that could endure the book.
123 페이지 - ... loves and honours: his eye always on the ladies; if they have very large hoops, he looks down and supercilious, and as if he would be thought wise, but perhaps the sillier for that: as he approaches a lady, his eye is never fixed first upon her face, but upon her feet, and thence he raises it up, pretty quickly for a dull eye; and one would think (if we thought him at all worthy of observation) that from her air and (the last beheld) her face, he sets her down in his mind as so or so, and then...