 For if their condition was equally abject, their aspirings were not equally high, nor their sense of insult equally acute. To lodge in a garret up four pair of stairs, to dine in a cellar among footmen out of place, to translate ten hours a day for the...  Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Página 144por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 744 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 512 páginas
...four pair of stairs, to dine in a cellar amongst footmen out of place ; to translate ten hours a-day for the wages of a ditcher ; to be hunted by bailiffs...the ashes of a glasshouse in December ; to die in an hospital, and to be buried in a parish vault, was the fate of more than one writer, who, if he had... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 410 páginas
...four pair of stairs, to dine in a cellar amongst footmen out of place; to translate ten hours a-day for the wages of a ditcher; to be hunted by bailiffs...amidst the ashes of a glasshouse in December, to die in a hospital, and to be buried in a parish vault, was the fate of more than one writer, who, if he had... | |
 | 1843 - 574 páginas
...sense of insult equally acute. To lodge in a garret up four pair of stairs, to dine in a cellar among footmen out of place, to translate ten hours a day...pestilence to another, from Grub Street to St. George's Field's, and from St. George's Fields to the alleys behind St. Martin's Church, to sleep on a bulk... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...crow, familiar with compters and spunginghonses, and perfectly qualified to decide on the aomparative &* &* ileep on a bulk in June, and amidst the ashes of a glasshouse in December, to die in an hosp'tal, and... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 páginas
...sense of insult equally acute. To lodge in a garret up four pair of stairs, to dine in a cellar among footmen out of place, to translate ten hours a day...the ashes of a glass-house in December, to die in an hospital and be buried in a parish vault, was the fate of more than one writer who, if he had lived... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 páginas
...scarecrow, familiar with compters and spunginghouses, and perfectly qualified to decide on the eomparative merits of the Common Side in the King's Bench prison,...the ashes of a glasshouse in December, to die in an hosP'tal, and to be buried in a parish vault, was the fate of more than one writer, whn, if he had... | |
 | 1852 - 780 páginas
...That word denoted a creature dressed like a scarecrow, familiar with compters and spunging houses, n and Ӡ* al* a glasshouse in December, to die in an hosP'lal, and to be buried in a parish vault, was the fate... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 658 páginas
...sense of insult equally acute. To lodge in a garret up four pair of stairs, to dine in a cellar among footmen out of place, to translate ten hours a day...bulk in June and amidst the ashes of a glass-house in 9 December, to die in an hospital and to be buried in a parish vault, was the fate of more than one... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 páginas
...footmen out of place, to translate ten hours a-day for the wages of a ditcher, to be hunted by baliffs from one haunt of beggary and pestilence to another,...the ashes of a glass-house in December, to die in an hospital and to be buried in a parish vault, was the fate of more than one writer who, if he had lived... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 430 páginas
...of the Common Side in the King's Bench prison, and of Mount Scoundrel in the Fleet. Even VOL. n.the poorest pitied him ; and they well might pity him....the ashes of a glasshouse in December, to die in an hospital, and to be buried in a parish vault, was the fate of more than one writer, who, if he had... | |
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