 The wares are sent to me at last, and I have an opportunity to examine my purchase. They are something more substantial than fame, as my back knows, which has borne them up two flights of stairs to a place similar to that to which they trace their origin.  Americana; the Literature of American History - Síða 245eftir Milton Waldman - 1925 - 271 síðurHeildartexta - Um bókina
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1880 - 76 síður
...Munroe four years ago, and have l>een ever since paying for, and have not quite paid for yet. Tin: wares are sent to me at last, and I have an opportunity...to which they trace their origin. Of the remaining two hundred ninety and odd, seventy-five were given away, the rest sold. I have now a library of nearly... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1880 - 76 síður
...last, and I have an opportunity to examine my purchase. They are something more substantial than tame, as my back knows, which has borne them up two flights...to which they trace their origin. Of the remaining two hundred ninety and odd, seventy-five were given away, the rest sold. I have now a library of nearly... | |
 | 1880 - 902 síður
...chance to examine his purchase, and finds the volumes are something more substantial than fame, as his back knows, which has borne them up two flights of...to which they trace their origin.' Of the remaining 294 copies 75 were given away, leaving the actual sales 219 copies. ' I have now a library of nearly... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1882 - 280 síður
...volumes are something more substantial than fame, as his back knows, which has borne them up two nights of stairs to "a place similar to that to which they trace their origin." Of the remaining 294 copies, 75 were given away, leaving the actual sales 219 copies. " I have now a library of nearly... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - 1890 - 336 síður
...with a manly courage and self-reliance not to be surpassed in the history of literary authorship : " The wares are sent to me at last, and I have an opportunity...to which they trace their origin. Of the remaining two hundred ninety and odd, seventy -five were given away, the rest sold. I have now a library of nearly... | |
 | 1908 - 860 síður
...his unsaleable volumes from the publisher. "They are something more substantial than fame," he wrote, "as my back knows, which has borne them up two flights of stairs. My works are now piled up on one side of my chamber, half as high as my head, my opera omnia. This... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1906 - 582 síður
...706 copies out of an edition of 1000 which I bought of Munroe four years ago and have been ever since paying for, and have not quite paid for yet. The wares...to which they trace their origin. Of the remaining two hundred and ninety and odd, seventy-five were given away, the rest sold. I have now a library of... | |
 | 1908 - 402 síður
...706 copies out of an edition of 1000 which I bought of Munroe four years ago and have been ever since paying for, and have not quite paid for yet. The wares...to which they trace their origin. Of the remaining two hundred and ninety odd, seventy-five were given away, the rest soid. I have now a library of nearly... | |
 | William Morton Payne - 1910 - 470 síður
...unloaded upon their imperturbable author, who thus commented upon the incident: "The wares are sent me at last, and I have an opportunity to examine my...similar to that to which they trace their origin. ... I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.... | |
 | John Hubert Greusel - 1916 - 160 síður
...of life. fl Thoreau gave them kindly though sorrowful welcome. He laid them on his back and carried them "up two flights of stairs to a place similar to that which they traced their origin." fl "I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes," he said... | |
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