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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1822 Excerpt: ... LETTER VII. FROM MESSRS. L--CK--GT--N AND CO. TO, ESQ. Per Post, Sir, we send your MS.--look'd it thro'- Very sorry--but can't undertake--'twouldn't do. Clever work, Sir --would get up prodigiously well--Its only defect is--it never would sell And though Statesmen may glory in being unbovght, In an Author, we think, Sir, that's rather a fault. Hard times, Sir, --most books are too dear to be read--Though the gold of Good-sense and Wit's smallchange are fled, Yet the paper we Publishers pass, in their stead, - From motives of delicacy, and, indeed, of fettowfeeltug, I suppress the name of the Author, whose rejected manuscript was inclosed in this letter.--See the Appendix. Rises higher each day, and ('tis frightful to think it) Not even such names as F--Tzg--R--D's can sink it However, Sir--if you're for trying again, And at somewhat that's vendible--we are your men. Siiice the Chevalier C--RR took to marrying lately, The Trade is in want of a Traveller greatly--No job, Sjr, more easy--your Country once plann'd, A month aboard ship and a fortnight on land Puts your Quarto of Travels, Sir, clean out of hand. An East-India pamphlet's a thing that would tell--And a lick at the Papists is sure to sell well. Or--supposing you've nothing original in you--Write Parodies, Sir, and such fame it will win you, You'll get to the Blue-stocking routs of Alb-n-a This allndes, I believe, to a curious correspondence, which is said to have passed lately between Alb--N--A, Countess of B--Ck--Gh--Ms--K, and a certain ingenious Parodist. (Mind--not to her dinners--a second-hand Muse Mustn't think of aspiring to mess with the Blues.) Or--in case nothing else in this world you can do--The deutie is in't, Sir, if you cannot review Should you feel any touch of poetical glow...
| ISBN-13 | 9781151572547 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1151572543 |
| Weight | 0.20 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.12 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 52 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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