 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 788 páginas
...had not been pressed into the service, and driven on to glory •with the bayonet of sharp necessity pointed at his back ? If fortune had turned him into...manual labour of writing would not have allowed his lassitude and love of ease to have taken the pen out of the inkhorn, unless the cravings of hunger... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 500 páginas
...he had not been pressed into the service, and driven on to glory with the bayonet of sharp necessity pointed at his back ? If fortune had turned him into...manual labour of writing would not have allowed his lassitude and love of ease to have taken the pen out of the inkhorn, unless the cravings of hunger... | |
 | 1806 - 552 páginas
...he had not been prelied into the (ervice, and driven on to glory with the bayonet of (harp neceflity pointed at his back? If fortune had turned him into...he would have laid down and rolled in it. The mere manuel labour of writing would not have allowed his laffitude and love of eaie to have taken the pen... | |
 | 1806 - 452 páginas
...of lahour " with the hayonet of sharp necessity pointed at his hack." — " If fortune," says he, " had turned him into a field of clover, he would have laid down and rolled in it." P. 260. This has heen hefore ohserved in the preface to Old Kick. " Numherless," says the author, "... | |
 | Flowers of literature - 1807 - 626 páginas
...he had not been pressed into the service, and driven into glory with the bayonet of sharp necessity pointed at his back ? If fortune had turned him into...manual labour of writing would not have allowed his lassitude and love of ease to have taken the pen out of the inkhorn, unless the cravings of hunger... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1807 - 456 páginas
...necessity pointed at his back ? If fortune had tuttled him into a field of clover, he would have kid dowh and rolled in it. The mere manual labour^ of writing would not have allowed his lassitude and love of ease to have taken the pea out of the inkhorn, unless the cravings of hunger... | |
 | William Mudford - 1812 - 662 páginas
...he had not been pressed into the service, and driven on to glory with the bayonet of sharp necessity pointed at his back? If fortune had turned him into...manual labour of writing would not have allowed his lassitude and love of ease to have taken the pen out of the inkhorn, unless the cravings of hunger... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 570 páginas
...p°353. nad not keen pressed into the service, and driven on to glory with the bayonet of sharp necessity pointed at his back? If fortune had turned him into...manual labour of writing would not have allowed his lassitude and love of ease to have taken the pen out of the inkhorn, unless the cravings of hunger... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 páginas
...had n°t keen pressed into the service, and driven on to glory with the bayonet of sharp necessity pointed at his back? If fortune had turned him into...manual labour of writing would not have allowed his lassitude and love of ease to have taken the pen out of the inkhorn, unless the cravings of hunger... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 506 páginas
...he had not been pressed into the service, and driven on to glory with the bayonet of sharp necessity pointed at his back? If fortune had turned him into...manual labour of writing would not have allowed his lassitude and love of ease to have taken the pen out of the inkhorn, unless the cravings of bunker... | |
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Who •will say that Johnson himself would have been such a champion in literature, such a frontrank soldier in the fields of fame, if he had not been pressed into the service, and driven on to glory •with the bayonet of sharp necessity pointed at his... 
