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" ... promptly as it was made. It can rarely happen that a young author should meet with a bookseller as inexperienced and as ardent as himself, and it would be still more extraordinary if such mutual indiscretion did not bring with it cause for regret... "
The Metropolitan - Page 71
1837
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The Poetical Works of Robert Southey

Robert Southey - 1839 - 840 pages
...which was more than the list amounted to ; and the offer was accepted as promptly as it was made. It can rarely happen that a young author should meet...commencement of an intimacy which has continued, without Hie slightest shade of displeasure at any time, on either side, to the present day. At, that time,...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 25

1850 - 638 pages
...the tree of Knowledge.— Deiil't Walk. says Southey, in a preface to a late reprint of the poem, " that a young author should meet with a bookseller...such mutual indiscretion did not bring with it cause of regret to both. But this transaction was the commencement of an intimacy which has continued without...
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The North British review

1850 - 652 pages
...copies for himself. " It can rarely happen," says Southey, in a preface to a late reprint of the poem, " that a young author should meet with a bookseller...such mutual indiscretion did not bring with it cause of regret to both. Hut this transaction was the commencement of an intimacy which has continued without...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 20

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pages
...copies for himself. " It can rarely happen," says Southey, in a preface to a late reprint of the poem, " out in quaintest guise Was carved, ' Within this tomb...fairest thing to mortal eyes.' " * mark her ble of regret to both. But this transaction was the commencement of an intimacy which has continued without...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 20

1850 - 604 pages
...copies for himself. " It can rarely happen," says Southey, in a preface to a late reprint of the poem, " that a young author should meet with • a bookseller...such mutual indiscretion did not bring with it cause of regret to both. But this transaction was the commencement of an intimacy which has continued without...
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The North British Review, Volume 12

1850 - 580 pages
...and it would be still more extraordinary if such mutual indiscretion did not bring with it cause of regret to both. But this transaction was the commencement...displeasure at any time on either side to the present day." The expedition to America was not yet abandoned in thought by the adventurous poets, and Coleridge...
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The Dublin university magazine

University magazine - 1850 - 816 pages
...which was more than the list amounted to, and the offer was accepted »s promptly as it was made. It can rarely happen, that a young author should meet with a bookseller аз inex[!'.Tk-need and as ardent as himself; inj it would he still more extraordinary, if such mutual...
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The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, Part 1

Robert Southey - 1851 - 590 pages
...which was more than the list amounted to ; and the offer was accepted as promptly as it was made. It can rarely happen that a young author should meet with a bookseller as incx]>crienced and ai ready to commence his operations, nothing had been done toward preparing the...
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The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey

Robert Southey - 1855 - 588 pages
...which was more than the list amounted to; and the offer was accepted as promptly as it was made? It can rarely happen that a young author should meet with a bookseller as inexperienced and aa ardent as himself, and it would be still more extraordinary if such mutual indiscretion did not...
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Southey

Edward Dowden - 1879 - 244 pages
...slowly in. One evening Southey read for Cottle some books of Joan. " It can rarely happen," he writes, " that a young author should meet with a bookseller as inexperienced and as ardent as himself." Cottle offered to publish the poem in quarto, to make it the handsomest book ever printed in Bristol,...
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