 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1844 - 264 str.
...of first calculating their own strength, and avoiding a load which their shoulders refused to bear. A middleman between the publisher and the author,...and the hop-merchant or the brewer, a verlager, they called him, would come round to make bargains, buying up the MS. which was ready written, or else setting... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1844 - 266 str.
...of first calculating their own strength, and avoiding a load which their shoulders refused to bear. A middleman between the publisher and the author,...and the hop-merchant or the brewer, a verlager, they called him, would come round to make bargains, buying up the MS. which was ready written, or else setting... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1872 - 296 str.
...of first calculating their own strength, and avoiding a load which their shoulders refused to bear. A middleman between the publisher and the author,...and the hop-merchant or the brewer, a verlager, they called him, would come round to make bargains, buying up the MS. which was ready written, or else setting... | |
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... was the mechanical state into which authorship was come, and the recklessness * Four pounds. with which authors would undertake works. The last thing they dreamt of was a conformity to Horace's rule of first calculating their own strength, and avoiding... 