 Oh that I was rich enough to live without a profession! What do you think of my becoming an author, and relying for support upon my pen ? Indeed, I think the illegibility of my handwriting is very author-like. How proud you would feel to see my works...  Temple Bar - Page 5251885Full view - About this book
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1884 - 546 pages
...being interpreted is, " to the 1 realms below." Oh that I was rich enough to live without a profession! What do you think of my becoming an author, and relying...proudest productions of the scribbling sons of John Bull. But authors are always poor devils, and therefore Satan may take them. I am in the same predicament... | |
 | 1884 - 540 pages
...being interpreted is, " to the realms below." Oh that I was rich enough to live without a profession ! What do you think of my becoming an author, and relying...proudest productions of the scribbling sons of John Bull. But authors are always poor devils, and therefore Satan may take them. I am in the same predicament... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1884 - 542 pages
...being interpreted is, " to the realms below." Oh that I was rich enough to live without a profession ! What do you think of my becoming an author, and relying...proudest productions of the scribbling sons of John Bull. But authors are always poor devils, and therefore Satan may take them. I am in the same predicament... | |
 | American literature - 1884 - 858 pages
...infirmities of my fellow-creatures. Oh, that 1 was rich enough to live without a profession ! What do i you think of my becoming an author, and relying for support upon my pen? Indeed, I think the illegibil- j ity of my handwriting is very authorlike. How proud you would feel to see my works praised... | |
 | 1885 - 248 pages
...being interpreted, is to the realms below. Oh, that I was rich enough to live without a profession ! What do you think of my becoming an author, and relying...reviewers as equal to the proudest productions of scribbling John Bull's! But authors are always poor devils, and therefore Satan may take them. I am... | |
 | 1885 - 648 pages
...seventeenth year he writes to his widowed mother : What do you think of my becoming an author (he asks her) and relying for support upon my pen ? Indeed, I think...proudest productions of the scribbling sons of John Bull. But authors are always poor devils, and, therefore, Satan may take them. The vicissitudes of his younger... | |
 | American literature - 1885 - 404 pages
...diseases and infirmities of my fellow-creatures. Oh, that I was rich enough to live without a profession ! What do you think of my becoming an author, and relying...to see my works praised by the reviewers as equal io the proudest productions of the scribbling sons of John Bull. But authors are always '• poor devils,... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1885 - 542 pages
...being interpreted is, " to the realms below." Oh that I was rich enough to live without a profession! What do you think of my becoming an author, and relying for support upon niy pen ? Indeed, I think the illegibility of my handwriting is very author-like. How proud you would... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Literary Criticism - 1890 - 258 pages
...being interpreted, is cto the realms below.' Oh that I was rich enough to live without any profession ! what do you think of my becoming an author, and relying...upon my pen ? Indeed, I think the illegibility of my hand is very author-like. How proud you would be to see my works praised by the reviewers, as equal... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Literary Criticism - 1890 - 254 pages
...upon my pen ? Indeed, I think the illegibility of my hand is very author-like. How proud you would be to see my works praised by the reviewers, as equal...proudest productions of the scribbling sons of John Bull. But authors are always poor devils, and therefore Satan may take them. I am in the same predicament... | |
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