Who will say that Johnson himself would have been such a champion in literature, such a frontrank soldier in the fields of fame, if he had not been pressed into the service, and driven on to glory with the bayonet of sharp necessity pointed at his back... Memoirs of Richard Cumberland - Page 171by Richard Cumberland - 1806 - 356 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 500 pages
...in literature, such a front-rank soldier in the fields of fame, if he had not been pressed into the service, and driven on to glory with the bayonet of...he would have laid down and rolled in it. The mere manual labour of writing would not have allowed his lassitude and love of ease to have taken the pen... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1806 - 788 pages
...in literature, such a frontrank soldier in the fields of fame, if he had not been pressed into the service, and driven on to glory with the bayonet of...he would have laid down and rolled in it. The mere manual labour of writing would not have allowed his lassitude and love of ease to have taken the pen... | |
| 1806 - 552 pages
...he had not been prelied into the (ervice, and driven on to glory with the bayonet of (harp neceflity pointed at his back? If fortune had turned him into...manuel labour of writing would not have allowed his laffitude and love of eaie to have taken the pen out of the inkliorn, unlefs the cravings of hungar... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 796 pages
...he had not been pressed into the service, and driven on to glory with the bayonet of sharp nccesuty pointed at his back ? If fortune had turned him into...he would have laid down and rolled in it. The mere manual labour of writing would not have allowed his lassitude and love of ease to have taken the pen... | |
| 1806 - 452 pages
...of lahour " with the hayonet of sharp necessity pointed at his hack." — " If fortune," says he, " had turned him into a field of clover, he would have laid down and rolled in it." P. 260. This has heen hefore ohserved in the preface to Old Kick. " Numherless," says the author, "... | |
| 1806 - 562 pages
...driven on to glory 'vith the bayonet ot lliarp neceflily pointed at his back? If fortune had'-l'driled .him into a field of clover, he would have laid down and rolled in it. Tife mere manuel labour of writing would not have allowed his lalfitude and love, of ea(e to have taken... | |
| Flowers of literature - 1807 - 626 pages
...front rank soldier in the fields of fame, if he had not been pressed into the service, and driven into glory with the bayonet of sharp necessity pointed...he would have laid down and rolled in it. The mere manual labour of writing would not have allowed his lassitude and love of ease to have taken the pen... | |
| Richard Cumberland - 1807 - 454 pages
...soldier in the fields of fame, if he VOL. I. AA had not been pressed into the service, and driven on ta glory with the bayonet of sharp necessity pointed...he would have laid down and rolled in it . The mere manual labour of writing would not have allowed his lassitude and love. of ease to have taken the pen... | |
| 1807 - 434 pages
...in literature, such a front-rank soldier in the fields of fame, if he had not been pressed into the service, and driven on to glory with the bayonet of...had turned him into a field of clover, he would have lain down and rolled in it. The mere manual labour of writing would not have allowed his lassitude... | |
| Richard Cumberland - 1807 - 456 pages
...literature, such a front-rank soldier in the fields of fame, if he VOL. I. AA had not been pressed into the service, and driven on to glory with the bayonet of...sharp necessity pointed at his back ? If fortune had tuttled him into a field of clover, he would have kid dowh and rolled in it. The mere manual labour^... | |
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