 | Robert Chambers - 1904 - Liczba stron: 888
...will be, like Prior's fellowship, a last and sure resource.' Charles Lamb, too, in 1823 wrote to him : 'Throw yourself on the world, without any rational...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... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1904 - Liczba stron: 268
...it. But suppose it attained— " SIR,— " St. James's Street, June i, 1812. " gth January, 1823. " Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan...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 Wright - 1904 - Liczba stron: 512
...the strenuous urgings of the last two. Byron said, ' If you have a profession, retain it ' ; Lamb : ' Throw yourself rather, my dear sir, from the steep Tarpeian rock, slapdash headlong upon iron spikes. . . . Trust not to the public. ... I bless every star that Providence, not seeing good to make... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1904 - Liczba stron: 338
...for the strenuous urgings of the last two. Byron said, ' If you have a profession, retain it'; Lamb: 'Throw yourself rather, my dear sir, from the steep Tarpeian rock, slapdash headlong upon iron spikes. . . . Trust not to the public. ... I bless every star that Providence, not seeing good to make... | |
 | Albert Stanburrough Cook, Allen Rogers Benham - 1905 - Liczba stron: 176
...you all! Your affectionate father, R. SOUTHEY. XLV Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton January 9, 1823. ' 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... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1905 - Liczba stron: 622
...dissuasion. Barton had nourished thoughts of throwing up the bank and taking to literature. Says Lamb : " ' 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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1905 - Liczba stron: 536
...1818 and 1819, in two large quarto volumes.] LETTER 290 CHARLES LAMB TO BERNARD BARTON 9 Jan., 1823. '"T^HROW 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... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1905 - Liczba stron: 362
...dead wood " and betake himself to literature as a livelihood. Throw yourself on the world (cries Lamb) without any rational plan of support, beyond what...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... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1905 - Liczba stron: 352
...dead wood " and betake himself to literature as a livelihood. Throw yourself on the world (cries Lamb) without any rational plan of support, beyond what...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... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1905 - Liczba stron: 532
...LAMB TO BERNARD BARTON 9 Jan., 1823. " r I ^HROW yourself on the world without any rational plan of J_ support, beyond what the chance employ of Booksellers...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.... 
