 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 Seiten
...yet have (he excuse that we do it for a ppor subsistence ; but what can be urged in their defence, who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble,...wantonness take pains to make themselves ridiculous ? Horace 1781. rnore liberal than Mr. William Whitehead, in his Elegy to Lord Villiers," in which under... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 Seiten
...yet have the excuse that we do it for a poor subsistence ; but what can be urged in their defence, .who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble,...wantonness take pains to make themselves ridiculous ? Horace was certainly in the right where he said, ' That no man is satisfied with his own condition.'... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 436 Seiten
...yet have the excuse that we do it for a poor subsistence ; but what can be urged in their defence, who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble,...wantonness take pains to make themselves ridiculous ? Horace was certainly in the right, where he said, " That no man is satisfied with his own condition."... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 Seiten
...yet have the excuse, that we do it for a poor subsistence ; but what can be urged in their defence, who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble,...wantonness take pains to make themselves ridiculous ? Horace was certainly in the right, where he said, ' That no man is satisfied with his own condition.'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 506 Seiten
...yet have the excuse that we do it for a poor subsistence ; but what can be urged in their defence, who not having the vocation of poverty to scribble,...wantonness take pains to make themselves ridiculous ? Horace was certainly in the right where he said, 'That no man is satisfied with his own condition.'... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 Seiten
...than a wit.» excuse, that we do it for a poor subsistence ; but what can be urged in their defence, who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble,...wantonness take pains to make themselves ridiculous ? Horace was certainly in the right, where he said, 'That no man is satisfied with his own condition.'... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 Seiten
...than a wit.» excuse, that we do it for a poor subsistence ; but what can be urged in their defence, who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble,...wantonness take pains to make themselves ridiculous ? Horace was certainly in the right, where he said, 'That no man is satisfied with his own condition.'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 444 Seiten
...yet have the excuse that we do it for a poor subsistence ; but what can be urged in their defence, who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble, out of mere wantoaness take pains to make themselves ridiculous? Horace was certainly in the right where he said,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 Seiten
...yet have the excuse, that we do it for a poor subsistence ; but what can be urged in their defence, who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble,...wantonness take pains to make themselves ridiculous ? Horace was certainly in the right, where he said, ' That no man is satisfied with his own condition.'... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 344 Seiten
...yet have the excuse, that we do it for a poor subsistence ; but what can be urged in their defence, who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble,...wantonness take pains to make themselves ridiculous ? Horace was certainly in the right, where he said, ' That no man is satisfied with his own condition.'... | |
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We who write, if we want the talent, yet have the excuse that we do it for a poor subsistence; but what can be urged in their defence, who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble, out of mere wantonness take pains to make themselves ridiculous... 
