 On the day the book was first vended, a crowd of authors besieged the shop ; entreaties, advices, threats of law and battery, nay cries of treason, were all employed to hinder the coming out of the " Dunciad ; " on the other side, the booksellers and...  Shadows of the Old Booksellers - Page 103by Charles Knight - 1865 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1882 - 544 pages
...censure as those who are the greatest slanderers : which was wonderfully exemplified on this occasion. On the day the book was first vended, a crowd of authors...other side, the booksellers and hawkers made as great efforts to procure it : what could a few poor authors do against so great a majority as the public... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 480 pages
...censure as those who are the greatest slanderers, which was wonderfully exemplified on this occasion. On the day the book was first vended, a crowd of authors besieged the shop ; intreaties, advices, threats of law and battery, nay cries of treason, were all employed to hinder... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 pages
...whole impression was taken and dispersed by several noblemen and persons of the first distinction. "On the day the book was first vended, a crowd of...the ' Dunciad :' on the other side, the booksellers made as great an effort to procure it. "What could a few poor authors do against so great a majority... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1894 - 688 pages
...afterwards deposed to make place for Gibber. " On the day the book was first vended," Pope tells us, "a crowd of authors besieged the shop ; entreaties,...other side, the booksellers and hawkers made as great efforts to procure it What could a few poor authors do against so great a majority as the public ?... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar - English poetry - 1896 - 316 pages
...whole impression was taken and dispersed by several noblemen and persons of the first distinction. ot treason, were all employed to hinder the coming out...other side, the booksellers and hawkers made as great efforts to procure it. What could a few poor authors do against so great a majority as the public ?... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 pages
...censure as those who are the greatest slanderers, which was wonderfully exemplified on this occasion. On the day the book was first vended, a crowd of authors...other side, the booksellers and hawkers made as great efforts to procure it. What could a few poor authors do against so great a majority as the public ?... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 pages
...censure as those who are the greatest slanderers, which was wonderfully exemplified on this occasion. On the day the book was first vended, a crowd of authors...other side, the booksellers and hawkers made as great efforts to procure it. What could a few poor authors do against so great a majority as the public ?... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 pages
...afterward deposed to make place for Cibber. " On the day the book was first vended," Pope tells us, "a crowd of authors besieged the shop; entreaties,...other side, the booksellers and hawkers made as great efforts to procure it. What could a few poor authors do against so great a majority as the public ?... | |
 | Robert McWilliam - English literature - 1900 - 644 pages
...in the following year. To some of the editions there is prefixed a narrative in which we are told— On the day the book was first vended, a crowd of authors...other side, the booksellers and hawkers made as great efforts to procure it. What could a few poor authors do against so great a majority as the publick... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 582 pages
...censure as those who are the greatest slanderers, which was wonderfully exemplified on this occasion. On the day the book was first vended a crowd of authors besieged the shop ; intreaties, advices, threats of law and battery, nay cries of treason, were all employed to hinder... | |
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