 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1857 - 628 Seiten
...any rational plan of suppor, beyond what the chance employ of booksellers would afford you ! " Tarow yourself rather, my dear sir, from the steep Tarpeian 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... | |
 | Thomas Craddock - 1867 - 232 Seiten
...by an aching head or a deranged digestion, on the first object of annoyance that presented itself. '•'Throw yourself on the world without any rational...steep Tarpeian rock, slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you had but five consolatory minutest between the desk and the bed, make much of them, rather... | |
 | Samuel Woolcock Christophers - 1867 - 512 Seiten
...too ready to abandon himself to dependence on a literary profession, and he wrote to him, saying, " Throw yourself on the world, without any rational...steep Tarpeian 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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 Seiten
...readers. Believe me, " Your obliged and obedient Mrnat, TO BERNARD BARTON. "• January Qth, 1823. "'Throw yourself on the world without any rational...steep Tarpeian rock, slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you had but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1867 - 442 Seiten
...Barton, the Quaker poet, in 1823, thus speaks of literature, as a calling to get a livelihood : — " Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan...rather, my dear sir, from the steep Tarpeian rock, slap dash, headlong, down upon iron spikes. I have known many authors want for bread, some repining,... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1867 - 614 Seiten
...Lamb's humour is shown in a letter to Barton, who proposed to exchange clerkship for literature : — 'Throw yourself on the -world without any rational...rather, my dear sir, from the steep Tarpeian rock, slap dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you had but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1871 - 448 Seiten
...a very different poet — Lord Byron. As the letter has TO BERNARD BARTON. " January 9th, 1823. " ' Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan...the chance employ of booksellers would afford you III' never been published, and it may be interesting to compare the expressions of two men so different... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1872 - 530 Seiten
...Bernard Barton (Quaker, poet, and banker's clerk) on his project (too literally) of "throwing himself on the world," without any rational plan of support, beyond what the chance employ of booksellers may afford him. Let hinu, by Lamb's advice, throw himself rather from the Tarpeian rock, slap-dash... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 Seiten
...be, like Prior's fellowship, a last and sure resource.' Charles Lamb also wrote to him as follows : nd alone, surrounded by savage animals, and men still...settlement. All these circumstances crowded at once on spikes. If you have but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1876 - 454 Seiten
...hastily-penned note, believe me, with great respect, C. LAMB. LETTER CLXXXII.] January 9th, 18z3. " Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan...steep Tarpeian rock, slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you had but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and... | |
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Throw yourself rather, my dear Sir, from the steep Tarpeian rock slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you had but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century in them, rather than turn slave to the Booksellers.... 
