 | 1871 - 798 sider
...spent my guineas in my youth,) but how little I got for my work ! It makes me laugh," he continued, "at what The Times pays me now, when I think of the...them then, and got a shilling where I now get ten." One day he wanted a little service done for a friend, and I remember his very quizzical expression,... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1872 - 370 sider
...spent my guineas in my youth,) but how little I got for my work! It makes me laugh," he continued, " at what The Times pays me now, when I think of the...them then, and got a shilling where I now get ten." One day he wanted a little service done for a friend, and I remember his very quizzical expression,... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 sider
...spent my guinea« in my youth), but how little I got fur my work ! It makes me laugh," he continned, he wandering airs they fiiint On the dark, the silent...odours fail Like sweet thoughts in a dream ; The trhere I now get ten." One day he wanted a little service done for > friend, and 1 remember his very... | |
 | Charles Plumptre Johnson - 1888 - 104 sider
...and I wanted money sadly . . . but how little I got for my work! It .makes me laugh," he continued, " at what The Times pays me now, when I think of the...them then, and got a shilling where I now get ten.' It is doubtful, however, whether, with the exception of the isolated article on Cruikshank's pictures... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1899 - 376 sider
...wanted money sadly (my parents were rich, but respectable, and I had spent all my guineas in my youth) ; but how little I got for my work ! It makes me laugh...better I wrote for them then, and got a shilling where 1 now get ten." Now Thackeray was thirty-five in 1846, and he was undoubtedly discontented with his... | |
 | 1871 - 818 sider
...spent my guineas in my youth,) but how little I got for my work ! It makes me laugh," he continued, "at what The Times pays me now, when I think of the...them then, and got a shilling where I now get ten." One day he wanted a little service done for a friend, and I remember his very quizzical expression,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1996 - 310 sider
..."and I wanted money sadly . . . but how little I got for my work ! It makes me laugh," he continued, " at what The Times pays me now, when I think of the...them then, and got a shilling where I now get ten.' It is doubtful, however, whether, with the exception of the isolated article on Cruikshank's pictures... | |
 | Louis J. Budd - 1999 - 674 sider
...present fame as a humorist is in its favor. Thackerary said of his earlier efforts: "It makes me laugh when I think of the old days, and how much better...them then, and got a shilling where I now get ten." We only wish that Mr. Clemens had made fewer alterations than he has made in those rollicking, often... | |
 | 1871 - 856 sider
...spent my guineas in my youth,) but how little I got for my work ! It makes me laugh," he continued, Y D :-H _ 2 M n H 7){ZYF("ܔ h+% F= E > b%8 &2 G = _A z H b $ One day he wanted a little service done for a friend, and I remember his very quizzical expression,... | |
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It makes me laugh," he continued, "at what The Times pays me now, when I think of the old days, and how much better I wrote for them then, and got a shilling where I now get ten. 