 Locke, instructed and delighted the world. When the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it, and commit his poem to the flames — nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labours: he knew...  The Quarterly Review - Page 4531836Full view - About this book
 | Bible - 1877 - 820 pages
...commit his poem to the flames, nor did he accept the miserable pittance aa the reward of his labor. He knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it." But the foregoing facts — though their results, for want of space, have been only incidentally... | |
 | Eaton Sylvester Drone - Copyright - 1879 - 838 pages
...commit his poem to the flames ; nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labor. He knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it. Some authors are as careless about profit as others are rapacious of it; and what a situation would... | |
 | American Pharmaceutical Association - 1889 - 886 pages
...commit his poem to the flames, nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labor; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay the debt." Who can estimate the money value of the discoveries of Newton, Franklin, Fulton, Harvey,... | |
 | John Forster - 1871 - 544 pages
...five pounds for his Paradise " Lost, he did not reject the offer and commit his piece to the Sames, nor did he * accept the miserable pittance as the...work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it." Pari. Hist. xvii. 992. Having thus a great lawyer's opinion of those who "scribble for their •'... | |
 | Thomas Edward Scrutton - Copyright - 1890 - 316 pages
...commit his poem to the flames, nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labour ; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it." How could the peers resist such eloquence as this; indeed, the only fault to be found with such... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1892 - 592 pages
...commit his poems to the flames, nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labour ; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it.' * ' The scribblers for bread ! ' ' The dirty bookseller ! ' It is instructive to compare this... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1892 - 598 pages
...commit his poems to the flames, nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labour; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it.' * ' The scribblers for bread ! ' ' The dirty bookseller ! ' It is instructive to compare this... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1900 - 334 pages
...commit his piece to the flames, nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labors ; he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it."— Parliamentary History, xvii. 992. Having thus a great lawyer's opinion of those who "scribble... | |
 | James Burnley - Industries - 1902 - 452 pages
...would be unworthy such men to traffic with a dirty bookseller. When the bookseller offered Milton £$ for his ' Paradise Lost,' he did not reject it, and...work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it." But it gradually began to dawn upon writers and dealers in books that good work was worth good... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1902 - 540 pages
...commit his poem to the flames, nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labor: he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it. "—CHRISTIAN. In Wheaton v. Peters, 8 Peters, 591, the question of copyright was discussed by... | |
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