Shadows of the Old BooksellersBell and Daldy, 1865 - 320 pages |
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... means were devised to quash the same ; which being vigorously put in execution , the booksellers , by frequent seizures and prosecutions , became so great sufferers , that they judged a further pursuit thereof inconsistent with their ...
... means were devised to quash the same ; which being vigorously put in execution , the booksellers , by frequent seizures and prosecutions , became so great sufferers , that they judged a further pursuit thereof inconsistent with their ...
Page 13
... means in extravagant dis- play , or the dissipation of some young men of the city , who ape the vices and follies of the courtiers . What if he should be able to do something towards the support of the hospital in Southwark , which ...
... means in extravagant dis- play , or the dissipation of some young men of the city , who ape the vices and follies of the courtiers . What if he should be able to do something towards the support of the hospital in Southwark , which ...
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... in all trades are sorely disturbed in their calculations , whilst Charles Montague , and Locke , and Newton , are thinking over the best means for a reform of the coinage . Mr. Tonson's customers give him CHAP . III . 55 JACOB TONSON .
... in all trades are sorely disturbed in their calculations , whilst Charles Montague , and Locke , and Newton , are thinking over the best means for a reform of the coinage . Mr. Tonson's customers give him CHAP . III . 55 JACOB TONSON .
Page 56
... means that he was not obliged to take guineas at their market value as compared with the clipped and debased silver . Cunningham , a historian of the period , says , " Guineas on a sudden rose to thirty shillings a piece - all currency ...
... means that he was not obliged to take guineas at their market value as compared with the clipped and debased silver . Cunningham , a historian of the period , says , " Guineas on a sudden rose to thirty shillings a piece - all currency ...
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... means the Club that assembles at the public house on the Common . Knowing , however , that I was at the right place , I could not avoid expressing my vexation that the periodical assemblage of the first men of their age should be so ...
... means the Club that assembles at the public house on the Common . Knowing , however , that I was at the right place , I could not avoid expressing my vexation that the periodical assemblage of the first men of their age should be so ...
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Page 243 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
Page 107 - 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.
Page 121 - 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.
Page 233 - 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
Page 205 - 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...
Page 187 - 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.
Page 107 - 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.
Page 72 - Ridotta sips and dances, till she see The doubling lustres dance as fast as she; F— loves the senate, Hockley-hole his brother, Like in all else, as one egg to another.
Page 258 - ... a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tessellated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white; patriots and courtiers; king's friends and republicans; Whigs and Tories; treacherous friends and open enemies; that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.
Page 226 - I am at a loss how to describe the success of the work without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first impression was exhausted in a few days; a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand, and the bookseller's property was twice invaded by the pyrates of Dublin. My book was on every table, and almost on every toilette...