The verdicts pronounced by this conclave on new books were speedily known over all London, and were sufficient to sell off a whole edition in a day, or to condemn the sheets to the service of the trunk-maker and the pastry-cook. Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Página 4931857Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1857 - 764 páginas
...president. The opinion formed by the club of a new work, was speedily known all over London ; and waa sufficient to sell off a whole edition in a day, or to condemn the sheets to the trunkmaker and pastrycook. JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. First ordered to be printed, and 5000Í.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 460 páginas
...letters. The verdicts pronounced by this conclave on new books were speedily known over all London, and were sufficient to sell off a whole edition in a day,...the representative of poetry and light literature, Eeynolds of the arts, Burke of political eloquence and political philosophy. There, too, were Gibbon,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 458 páginas
...letters. The verdicts pronounced by this conclave on new books were speedily known over all London, and were sufficient to sell off a whole edition in a day,...and the pastry-cook. Nor shall we think this strange vdien we consider what great and various talents and acquirements met in the little fraternity. Goldsmith... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 458 páginas
...letters. The verdicts pronounced by this conclave on new books were speedily known over all London, and were sufficient to sell off a whole edition in a day,...service of the trunk-maker and the pastry-cook. Nor shaU we think this strange when we consider what great and various talents and acquirements met in... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1865 - 458 páginas
...letters. The verdicts pronounced by this conclave on new books were speedily known over all London, and were sufficient to sell off a whole edition in a day,...trunkmaker and the pastry-cook. Nor shall we think this sträng« when we consider what great and various talents and acquirements met in the little fraternity.... | |
| 1865 - 496 páginas
...pronounced by this conclave on new books," as Macaulay remarks, " were speedily known over all London, and were sufficient to sell off a whole edition in a day, or to condemn the sheets to the service of the trunk-makers and the pastrycook. Nor shall we think this strange when we consider what great and various... | |
| 1865 - 980 páginas
...pronounced by this conclave on new books," as Maeaulay remarks, " were speedily known over all London, and were sufficient to sell off a whole edition in a day, or to condemn the sheets to the «errice of the trunk-makers and the pastrycook. Nor shall we think this strange when we consider what... | |
| Irish ecclesiastical record - 1868 - 596 páginas
...letters. The verdicts pronounced by this conclave on new books were speedily known overall London, and were sufficient to sell off a whole edition in a day,...condemn the sheets to the service of the trunk-maker or the pastrycook. Nor shall we think this strange when we consider what great and various talents... | |
| Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1876 - 934 páginas
...letters. The verdicts pronounced by this conclave on new books were speedily known over all London, and were sufficient to sell off' a whole edition in a...strange when we consider what great and various talents met in the little fraternity. Goldsmith was the representative of poetry and light literature, Reynolds... | |
| Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1876 - 938 páginas
...letters. The verdicts pronounced by this conclave on new books were speedily known over all London, and were sufficient to sell off a whole edition in a day,...and the pastry-cook. Nor shall we think this strange wheu we consider what great and various talents met in the little fraternity. Goldsmith was the representative... | |
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