 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1806 - 788 pages
...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 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 - 512 pages
...had pot been pn.(Ted into the fervice, and driven on to glory with the bayonet i>f (harp ncceffity 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 laflicude and love of eafe «o have taken the pen... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 500 pages
...he 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 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, "... | |
 | Flowers of literature - 1807 - 626 pages
...he had not been pressed into the service, and driven into glory with the bayonet of sharp necessity 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... | |
 | 1808 - 246 pages
...fortune had turned him into a field of clover, he would have laid down and rolled in it. The mere manual labour of writing would not have allowed his laffitude and love of eafe to have taken the pen out of the inkhorn, unlefs the cravings of hunger had reminded him that... | |
 | William Mudford - 1812 - 662 pages
...he 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 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 pages
...had n°t keen pressed into the service, and driven on to glory with the bayonet of sharp necessity 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 570 pages
...p°353. nad not keen pressed into the service, and driven on to glory with the bayonet of sharp necessity 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 484 pages
...he 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 turned him into...he would have laid down and rolled in it. The mere manual labour of writing would not have allowed hi* lassitude and love of ease to have taken the pen... | |
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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... 
