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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: shall manage him, I hope.?I am pretty confident of the tale itself; but one cannot be sure. If I get it from Lord H., it shall be sent. Yours ever, etc., B. 381.?To John Murray. Jan. 1814.] I will answer your letter this evening; in the mean time, it may be sufficient to say, that there was no intention on my part to annoy you, but merely to serve Dallas, and also to rescue myself from a possible imputation that /had other objects than fame in writing so frequently. Whenever I avail myself of any profit arising from my pen, depend upon it, it is not for my own convenience; at least it never has been so, and I hope never will. that he never would take money for them, and that I should have the whole advantage of all he wrote. This declaration became morally void when the question was about thousands, instead of a few hundreds; and I perfectly agree with the admired and admirable author of VVaverley, that 'the wise and good accept not gifts which are made in heat of blood, and which may be after repented of.' I felt this on the sale of Ckilde Harold, and observed it to him. The copyright of The Giaour and The Jiride of Abydos remained undisposed of, though the poems were selling rapidly, nor had I the slightest notion that he would ever again give me a copyright. But as he continued in the resolution of not appropriating the sale of his works to his own use, I did not scruple to accept that of The Corsair, and I thanked him. He asked me to call and hear the portions read as he wrote them. I went every morning, and was astonished at the rapidity of his composition. He gave me the poem complete on New Year's Day, 1814, saying, that my acceptance of it gave him great pleasure, and that I was fully at liberty to publish it with any bookseller I...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217658447 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021765844X |
| Weight | 1.95 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.35 In |
| List Price | $14.80 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 610 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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