 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,...  The expedition of Humphry Clinker - Page 142by Tobias Smollett - 1790Full view - About this book
 | Tobias Smollett - 1793 - 268 pages
...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 little...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,... | |
 | 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 - 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 Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 584 pages
...which he promised himself a large fund of profit and reputation. Tim had made sbift to live many yeara 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... | |
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