 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 416 pages
...two pages (of manuscript) and a half to-day. As the boatswain said, one can't dance always nouther. But, were we sure of the quality of the stuff, what...mine being, I fear, exhausted. Give me my popularity (art awful postulate!), and all my present difficulties shall be a joke in four years ; and it is not... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1837 - 430 pages
...two pages (of manuscript) and a half to-day. As the boatswain said, one can't dance always mouther. But, were we sure of the quality of the stuff, what...mine being, I fear, exhausted. Give me my popularity (on mrful postulate.'), and all my present difficulties shall be a joke in four years ; and it is not... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1838 - 390 pages
...two pages (of manuscript) and a half to-day. As the boatswain said, one can't dance always nouther. But, were we sure of the quality of the stuff, what...being, I fear, exhausted. Give me my popularity (an anful postulate.'), and all my present difficulties shall be a joke in four years ; and it is not lost... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Authors, Scottish - 1839 - 430 pages
...two pages (of manuscript) and a half to-day. As the boatswain said, one can't dance always nouther. But, were we sure of the quality of the stuff, what...and all my present difficulties shall be a joke in four years; and it is not lost yet, at least. " February 5 Rose after a sound sleep, and here am I... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 434 pages
...two pages (of manuscript) and a half to-day. As the boatswain said, one can't dance always nouther. But, were we sure of the quality of the stuff, what...and all my present difficulties shall be a joke in four years ; and it is not lost yet, at least. " February 5 — Rose after a sound sleep, and here... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1862 - 340 pages
...two pages (of manuscript) and a half to-day. As the boatswain said, one can't dance always mouther. 'But, were we sure of the quality of the stuff, what...for the mine being, I fear, exhausted. Give me my * "Authentic Memoirs of the remarkable Life and surprising Exploits of Mandrin, Captain-General of... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1873 - 1014 pages
...two pages (of manuscript) and a half to-day. As the boatswain said, one can't danco always nouther. But, were we sure of the quality of the stuff, what...convinced that in three years I could do more than in the latt ten, but for the mine being, I fear, exhausted. Give me my * " Authentic Memoirs of the remarkable... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart, Henry Irwin Jenkinson - 1873 - 428 pages
...two pages (of manuscript) and a-half to-day. As the boatswain said, one can't dance always nouther. But, were we sure of the quality of the stuff, what opportunities for labour does this system of retreat afford us ! I am convinced that in three years I could do more than in the last ten,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 434 pages
...two pages (of manuscript) and a half to-day. As the boatswain said, one can't dance always nouiher. But, were we sure of the quality of the stuff, what...and all my present difficulties shall be a joke in four years; and it is not lost yet, at least. " February 5. — Rose after a sound sleep, and here... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - English literature - 1882 - 362 pages
...thousands of pounds with which to pay the debts of a trading firm. But Scott did not shrink from it. " Give me my popularity (an awful postulate!}, and all my present difficulties shall be a joke in four years," he cries. If he wrote too easily, too lightly, out of the fulness of his heart before,... | |
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But, were we sure of the quality of the stuff, what opportunities for labour does this same system of retreat afford us! I am convinced that in three years I could do more than in the last ten, but for the mine being, I fear, exhausted. Give me my popularity... 
