| 1812 - 1092 pages
...thought necessary, choosing rather to die on the road, than be starved to death in translating for the booksellers, which has been his only subsistence for some time past. The application was ineffectual, and he was obliged to content himself with the patronage of the London booksellers,... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...thinks it necessary; choosing rather to die upon the road, than be starved to death in translating for booksellers ; which has been his only subsistence for some time past. " I fear there is more difficulty in this affair, than those good-natured gentlemen apprehend ; especially... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...thinks it necessary ; choosing rather to die upon the road, than be starved to death in translating for booksellers; which has been his only subsistence for some time past. ' I fear there is more difficulty in this affair, than those goodnatured gentlemen apprehend ; especially... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 680 pages
...thinks it necessary; choosing rather to die upon the road, than be starved to death in translating for booksellers; which has been his only subsistence for some time past. ' I fear there is more difficulty in this affair, than those goodnatured gentlemen apprehend; especially... | |
| Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - 1820 - 540 pages
...thinks it necessary, chusing rather to die upon the road, than to be starved to death in translating for booksellers, which has been his only subsistence for some time past." The application produced no effect; and from Swift's unwillingness to interfere in the matter, Johnson's permanent... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 pages
...thinks it necessary, chasing rather to die upon the road, than to be starved to death in translating for booksellers, which has been his only subsistence for some time past." The application produced no effect ; and from Swift's unwillingness to interfere in the matter, Johnson's permanent... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 446 pages
...* Appleby, in Leicestershire. See J5oswell's Life of Johnson, 179i)> vol. I. p. 103. N. translating for booksellers, which has been his only subsistence for some time past. I fear there is more difficulty in this affair, than these good-natured gentlemen apprehend ; especially... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...thinks it ner,essa' y, choosing rather to die upon the road, than to be starved to death in translating for booksellers, which has been his only subsistence for some time past. " I fear there is more difficulty in this affair than these good natured gentlemen apprehend, especially... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 430 pages
...venture it, if the Dean thinks " it necessary, chasing rather to die upon the " road, than to be starved to death in trans" lating for booksellers, which has been his " only subsistence for some time past. I fear there is more difficulty in this affair than these good-natured gentlemen " apprehend, especially... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 590 pages
...thinks it necessary; choosing rather to die upon the road, than be starved to death in translating for booksellers, which has been his only subsistence for some time past. I fear there is more difficulty in this affair, than these good-natured gentlemen apprehend ; especially... | |
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