 | Tobias Smollett - 1790 - 420 pages
...guinea a fheet, for a modern hiftorian, who, in point of age, might be his grandchild ; and Pfalmonazar, after having drudged half a. century in the literary mill, in all the fimplicity and abr ftinence of an Afiatic, . fubfifts upon the charity of a few bookfellers, juft fufficient... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English fiction - 1796 - 560 pages
...a flieet, for a modern hiftorian, who, in point of age, might be his grandchild ; and Pfalmonazar, after having drudged half a century in the literary mill, in all the fimplicity and abftinence of an Afiatic, fubfifts upon the charity of a few bookfellers, juft fufHcient... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 282 pages
...guinea a sheet for a modern historian, who, in point of age, might be his grandchild; and Psalmanazar, after having drudged half a century in the literary...in all the simplicity and abstinence of an Asiatic, subsits upon the charity of a few booksellers, just sufficient to keep him from the parish.' In 1757... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1824 - 374 pages
...guinea a sheet, for a modern historian, who, in point of age, might be his grandchild ; and Psalmonazer, after having drudged half a century in the literary...booksellers, just sufficient to keep him from the parish. I think Guy, who was himself a bookseller, ought to have appropriated one wing or ward of his hospital... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Thomas Roscoe - Great Britain - 1831 - 472 pages
...guinea a sheet, for a modern historian, who, in point of age, might be his grandchild ; and Psalmonazar, after having drudged half a century in the literary...simplicity and abstinence of an Asiatic, subsists on the charity of a few booksellers, just sufficient to keep him from the parish. I think Guy, who... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett, Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 558 pages
...guinea a sheet, for a modern historian, who, in point of age, might be his grandchild ; andPsalrnonazar, after having drudged half a century in the literary...was himself a bookseller, ought to have appropriated ono wing or ward of his hospital to the use of decayed authors ; though, indeed, there is neither hospital,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Thomas Roscoe - English fiction - 1836 - 430 pages
...guinea a sheet for a modern historian, who, in point of age, might be his grandchild; and Psalmonazar, after having drudged half a century in the literary...simplicity and abstinence of an Asiatic, subsists on the charity of a few booksellers, just sufficient to keep him from the parish. I think Guy, who... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1836 - 748 pages
...language and its grammar.' — D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature, vol. I. p. 193. • ' Psalmanazar, after having drudged half a century in the literary...simplicity and abstinence of an Asiatic, subsists on the charity of a few booksellers, just sufficient to keep himself from the parish.' — v. Humphrey... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Thomas Roscoe - Great Britain - 1836 - 436 pages
...half a century in the literary mill, in all the simplicity and abstinence of an Asiatic, subsists on the charity of a few booksellers, just sufficient to keep him from the parish. I think Guy, who was himself a bookseller, ought to have appropriated one wing or ward of his hospital... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...after having drudged half a century in the literary world, in all the simplicity and abstinence of as Asiatic, subsists upon the charity of a few; booksellers, just sufficient to keep him from the parish. I think Guy, who was himself a bootseller, ought to have appropriated one wing or ward of his hospital... | |
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Psalmonazar,* after having drudged half a century in the literary mill, in all the simplicity and abstinence of an Asiatic, subsists upon the charity of a few booksellers, just sufficient to keep him from the parish. 
