 One half of the town abuse my book as bitterly, as the other half cry it up to the skies — the best is, they abuse and buy it, and at such a rate, that we are going on with a second edition, as fast as possible.  The Life of Laurence Sterne - Page 294by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1904Full view - About this book
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1805 - 324 pages
...my book as bitterly as the other half cry it up to the skies the best is, they abuse and buy it, and at such a rate, that we are going on with a second edition as fast as possible. I am going down for a day or two with Mr. Spencer to Wimbledon. On Wednesday there is to be a grand... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...book as bitterly as the other half cry it up to the skies. The best is, they abuse and buy it, and at such a rate, that we are going on with a second edition, as fast as possible." In another fetter, he says, " There is a shilling pamphlet wrote against Tristram. — I wish they... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1814 - 430 pages
...book as bitterly as the other half cry it up to the skies ; the best is, they abuse it and buy it, and at such a rate, that we are going on with a second edition as fast as possible. I am going down, for a day or two, with Mr. Spencer, to Wimbleton. On Wednesday there is to be a grand... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1830 - 432 pages
...book as bitterly as the other half cry it up to the skies : the best is, they abuse it and buy it. and at such a rate, that we are going on with a second edition as fast as possible. I am going down, for a day or two, with Mr. Spencer, to Wimbleton. On Wednesday there is to be a grand... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - English literature - 1834 - 440 pages
...book as bitterly as the other half cry it up to the skies : the best is, they abuse it and buy it, and at such a rate, that we are going on with a second edition as fast as possible. I am going down, for a day or two, with Mr. Spencer, to Wimbleton. On Wednesday there is to be a grand... | |
 | Fashion - 740 pages
...book as bitterly as the other half cry it up to the skies. The best is that they abuse and buy it, and at such a rate that we are going on with a second edition as fast as possible." Dodsley paid £380 for these, the third aud fourth volumes. Coxwould, sixteen miles from York, was... | |
 | Women's periodicals, English - 1865 - 376 pages
...book as bitterly as the other half cry it up to the skies. The best is that they abuse and buy it, and at such a rate that we are going on with a second edition as fast as possible." Dodsley paid £380 for these, the third and fourth volumes. Coxwould, sixteen miles from York, was... | |
 | Literature - 1865 - 740 pages
...book as bitterly as the other half cry it up to the skies. The best is that they abuse and buy it, and at such a rate that we are going on with a second edition as fast as possible." Dodsley paid £380 for these, the third and fourth volumes. Coxwould, sixteen miles from York, was... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 604 pages
...book as bitterly as the other half cry it up to the skies. The best is, they abuse and buy it, and at such a rate, that we are going on with a second edition as fast as possible." Horace Walpole, who can only be heard as evidence on the sentiments of the opposition, thus professes... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1864 - 478 pages
...twenty-seventh, the third and fourth volumes were published. CHAPTER THE TWELFTH. THE NEW "SHANDYS." THIS second Shandy instalment was received with a...The garreteers soon began the storm of abuse. Mr. Griffiths' men led the attack, encouraged by that indiscreet confession of sensitiveness in his apostrophe... | |
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