 | Tobias Smollett - 1793 - 268 pages
...Europe and part of Afia, without ever budging beyond the liberties of the King's Bench, except in term time, with a tipftaff for his companion ; and as for...the rate of five pounds a volume; but that branch of of bufinefs is nowengrofledi by ferriale authors, who publifti merely for the propagation, of virtue,... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1820 - 280 pages
...the exhibition of which he promised himself a large fund of profit and reputation. Tim had made shift to live many years by writing novels, at the rate of five pounds a volume; but that branch of business is now engrossed by female authors, who publish merely for the propagation of virtue, with... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 280 pages
...the exhibition of which he promised himself a large fund of profit and reputation. Tim had made shift to live many years by writing novels, at the rate of five pounds a volume; but that branch of business is now engrossed by female authors, who publish merely for the propagation of virtue, with... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1824 - 374 pages
...the exhibition of which he promised himself a large fund of profit and reputation. Tim had made shift to live many years by writing novels, at the rate of five pounds a volume ; but that branch of business is now engrossed by female authors, who publish merely for the propagation of virtue, with... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett, Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 558 pages
...the exhibition of which he promised himself a large fund of profit and reputation. Tim had made shift to live many years by writing novels, at the rate of five pounds a volume ; but that branch of business is now engrossed by female authors, who publish merely for the propagation of virtue, with... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Thomas Roscoe - English fiction - 1836 - 430 pages
...the exhibition of which he promised himself a large fund of profit and reputation. Tim had made shift to live many years by writing novels, at the rate of five pounds a volume ; but that branch of business is now engrossed by female authors, who publish merely for the propagation of virtue, with... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...ate. exhibition of which he promised himself a large fund of profit and reputation. Tim had made shift to live many years by writing novels, at the rate of five pounds a volume ; but that branch of business is now engrossed by female authors, who publish merely for the propagation of virtue, with... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...the exhibition of which he promised himself a large fund of profit and reputation. Tim had made shift to live many years by writing novels, at the rate of five pounds a volume ; but that branch of business is now engrossed by female authors, who publish merely for the propagation of virtue, with... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 360 pages
...the exhibition of which he promised himself a large fund of profit and reputation. Tim had made shift to live many years by writing novels, at the rate of five pounds a volume ; but that branch of business is now engrossed by female authors, who publish merely for the propagation of virtue, with... | |
 | 1859 - 662 pages
...55). t Smollett has put the same thing in a slightly different way : — " Tim Cropdale had made shift to live many years by writing novels, at the rate of five pounds a volume ; but that branch of business is now engrossed by female authors, who publish merely for the propagation of virtue, with... | |
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Tim had made shift to live many years by writing novels, at the rate of five pounds a volume; but that branch of business is now engrossed by female authors, who publish merely for the propagation of virtue, with so much ease and spirit, and delicacy,... 
