 Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan of support, beyond what the chance employ of booksellers would afford you ! ! ! " Throw yourself rather, my dear Sir, from the steep Tarpeian rock slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you had but...  The New-York Review - Page 219edited by - 1838Full view - About this book
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - Poets, English - 1893 - 212 pages
...Byron had altered his purpose.1 Now he asks counsel of his new adviser. Lamb's reply is for all time : 'Throw yourself on the world without any rational...rock, slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you had but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1894 - 414 pages
...desires to send the same. Yours truly, 0. LAMB. To BERNARD BARTON. LETTER CCVII.] January 8, 1823 " Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan...rock, slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you had but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century... | |
 | Duncan Campbell - 1898 - 232 pages
...as a bank clerk and taking to literature, consulted Lamb on the subject. " Elia " at once replied, " Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan...Tarpeian rock slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes." Barton had interesting correspondence also with Jeffrey, Southey, Byron, Sir Walter Scott, and the... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 590 pages
...devoting himself to literature, but was strongly dissuaded from doing so by Lamb, who wrote to him : "Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan of support beyond what the chances of booksellers would afford you ! Throw yourself rather, my dear Sir, from the steep Tarpeian... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1899 - 184 pages
...Messrs. Taylor and Hessey, Booksellers, Fleet Street. No Preface. To BERNARD BARTON.* January 9, 1823. "Throw yourself on the world without any rational...rock, slap-dash headlong, upon iron spikes. If you had but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century... | |
 | John Cann Bailey - Authors, English - 1899 - 328 pages
...been duller than Lamb's, could not possibly have been more prudent. It is an admirable letter. " ' Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan...rock, slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you had but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - English literature - 1900 - 228 pages
...friends to whom he communicated his design.1 Charles Lamb thus wrote to him : — "9t& January, 1823. "Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan of support beyond what 1 So long ago as the date of his first volume he had written to Lord Byron on the subject ; who thus... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1903 - 888 pages
...will be, like Priors fellowship, a last and sure resource.' Charles Lamb, too, in 1823 wrote to him : — TH?V .-ither than turn slave to the booksellers. They ire Turks and Tartars when they have poor authors... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1903 - 488 pages
...memoirs, desires to send the same. Yours truly, C. LAMB. CCLXXXIV. TO BERNARD BARTON January gth, 1823. " Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan...Tarpeian rock slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you had but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 486 pages
...memoirs, desires to send the same. Yours truly, C. LAMB. CCLXXXIV. TO BERNARD BARTON January 9th, 1823. " Throw yourself on the world without any rational plan...Tarpeian rock slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you had but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much of them, and live a century... | |
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