 ... man, with a very serious countenance and exceeding foul linen. After smoothing his approaches to my acquaintance by some introductory compliments, he informed me, as indeed I might have guessed, " that he was by profession an author, that he had been...  The Microcosm: A Periodical Work - Pàgina 109editat per - 1809Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Gregory Griffin - 1787 - 480 pàgines
...was ' by profeffion an Author; that he had been for ' many years a literary projector; that, owing to ' a kind of fatality, which had hitherto attended ' his attempts, and a firm refolution on his own * fide never to indulge the trivial tafte of an ill' judging age, in which it... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 426 pàgines
...that he was by profession an author; that he had been for many years a literary projector; that, owing to a kind of fatality, which had hitherto attended...illjudging age, in which it was his misfortune to be born,—but he would not trouble me with a detail of the open hostilities committed on his works by... | |
 | George Canning - 1825 - 312 pàgines
...by profession an author ; — that he had been for many years a literary projector; — that, owing to a kind of fatality which had hitherto attended...or the more secret and dangerous attempts of tacit malevolence and pretended contempt ; — that he had lately hit upon a project, which, by its nature,... | |
 | John Hookham Frere, Bartle Frere - 1872 - 662 pàgines
...that he was by profession an author, that he had been for many years a literary projector ; that owing to a kind of fatality which had hitherto attended...or the more secret and dangerous attempts of tacit malevolence and pretended contempt — that he had lately hit upon a project which by its nature must... | |
 | John Hookham Frere - 1872 - 628 pàgines
...that he was by profession an author, that he had been for many years a literary projector; that owing to a kind of fatality which had hitherto attended...ill-judging age in which it was his misfortune to be bom—but he would not trouble me with a detail of the open hostilities committed on his works by avowed... | |
 | John Hookham Frere - 1874 - 454 pàgines
...that he was by profession an author, that he had been for many years a literary projector ; that owing to a kind of fatality which had hitherto attended...or the more secret and dangerous attempts of tacit malevolence and pretended contempt — that he had lately hit upon a project which by its nature must... | |
 | John Hookham Frere - 1874 - 446 pàgines
...that he was by profession an author, that he had been for many years a literary projector ; that owing to a kind of fatality which had hitherto attended...ill-judging age in which it was his misfortune to be born—but he would not trouble me with a detail of the open hostilities committed on his works by... | |
 | John Hookham Frere - 1874 - 452 pàgines
...that he was by profession an author, that he had been for many years a literary projector ; that owing to a kind of fatality which had hitherto attended...own side never to indulge the trivial taste of an ill -judging age in which it was his misfortune to be born — but he would not trouble me with a detail... | |
 | George Canning, John Hookham Frere, George Ellis - 1890 - 458 pàgines
...that he was by profession an author, that he had been for many years a literary projector, that, owing to a kind of fatality which had hitherto attended...or the more secret and dangerous attempts of tacit malevolence and pretended contempt; that he had lately hit upon a project, which by its nature must... | |
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