 ... literature, such a front-rank 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 back ? If fortune had turned him into a field of clover, he would have...  Memoirs of Richard Cumberland - Strana 171podľa Richard Cumberland - 1806 - Počet stránok 356Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - Počet stránok 788
...fortune had turned him into a field of clover, he would have laid down and rolled in it. The mere manual labour of writing would not have allowed his lassitude...him that he must fill the sheet before he saw the table-cloth. He might indeed have knocked down Osbcurne for a blockhead, but he would not have knocked... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - Počet stránok 500
...fortune had turned him into a field of clover, he would have laid down and rolled in it. The mere manual labour of writing would not have allowed his lassitude...unless the cravings of hunger had reminded him that he muet fill the sheet before he saw the table-cloth. He might indeed have knocked down Osbourne for a... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1807 - Počet stránok 454
...fortune had turned him into a field of clover, he would have laid down and rolled in it . The mere manual labour of writing would not have allowed his lassitude...Osbourne for a blockhead, but he would not have knocked him down with a folio of his own writing. H« would perhaps have been the dictator of a club, and wherever... | |
 | 1807 - Počet stránok 434
...Fortune had turned him into a field of clover, he would have lain down and rolled in it. The mere manual labour of writing would not have allowed his lassitude...the table cloth. He might indeed have knocked down Osborn for a blockhead, but he would not have knocked him down with a folio of his own writing. He... | |
 | Flowers of literature - 1807 - Počet stránok 626
...fortune had turned him into a field of clover, he would have laid down and rolled in it. The mere manual labour of writing would not have allowed his lassitude...of the inkhorn, unless the cravings of hunger had 15 reminded him, that he must fill the sheet before he saw the table-cloth. He might, indeed, have... | |
 | 1807 - Počet stránok 856
...writing would not have allowed his lassitude and love oi ease to have, taken the pen out of the nkhdro, unless the cravings of hunger had reminded him that...the table cloth. He might indeed have knocked down Osborn for a blockhead, but te wt>uld not have knocked him down •ith a folio of his own writing.... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1807 - Počet stránok 456
...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 had reminded him that he must fill the sheet... | |
 | William Mudford - 1812 - Počet stránok 662
...fortune had turned him into a field of clover, he would have laid down and rolled in it. The mere manual labour of writing would not have allowed his lassitude...Osbourne for a blockhead, but he would not have knocked him down with a folio of his own writing. He would perhaps have been the dictator of a club, and wherever... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - Počet stránok 570
...fortune had turned him into a field of clover, he would have laid down and rolled in it. The mere manual labour of writing would not have allowed his lassitude...him that he must fill the sheet before he saw the table-cloth. He might indeed have knocked down Osburne for a blockhead, but he would not have knocked... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - Počet stránok 600
...fortune had turned him into a field of clover, he would have laid down and rolled in it. The mere manual labour of writing would not have allowed his lassitude...him that he must fill the sheet before he saw the table-cloth. He might indeed have knocked down Osburne for a blockhead, but he would not have knocked... | |
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