 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 páginas
...to a market. This drew to the place a mighty trade, the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom...meet with agreeable conversation; and the booksellers themselres were knowing and conversable men, with whom, for the sake of bookish knowledge, the greatest... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1842 - 790 páginas
...This drew to the place a mighty trade ; the rather because the shops were spacious, and the teamed gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed...as well spent there, as (in latter days) either in tavern or coffee-house : though the latter hath carried off the spare hours of most people. But now... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 442 páginas
..."This," he continues, "drew to the place a mighty trade; the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom...knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to converse." Strype, in his edition of Stow, published in 1720, describes Little Britain as " well built, and much... | |
 | Henry Mead - 1846 - 254 páginas
...to a market. This drew to the place a mighty trade, the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom...either in taverns or coffee-houses, though the latter hath carried off the spare time of most people. But now this emporium is vanished, and the trade contracted... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - 1846 - 484 páginas
...went thither as to a market. This drew a mighty trade, the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom...knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to converse." If such were the booksellers of a past age, those of the present day in Paternoster Row, need not shrink... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - 1849 - 472 páginas
...went tbither as to a market. This drew a mighty trade, the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom...knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to converse." If such were the booksellers of a past age, those of the present day need not shrink from any comparison... | |
 | John Timbs - 1855 - 1026 páginas
...failed to meet with agreeable conversation; and the booksellers themselves were knowing and convertible men, with whom, for the sake of bookish knowledge,...converse; and we may judge the time as well spent there u (in latter days) either in tavern or coffee-house. But now this emporium has' vanished, and the trade... | |
 | John Timbs - 1855 - 818 páginas
...a market. This drew to the place a mighty trade, the rather because the «hop« were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom...conversation; and the booksellers themselves were knowing and (•(inversible men, with whom, for the sake of bookish knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to... | |
 | William Hone - 1859 - 854 páginas
...themselves were knowing and conversable men, with whom, for the sake of bookish knowledge, the greatest wit0 were pleased to converse ; and we may judge the time as well (pent there as (in latter days) either in taverns or coffee-houses, though the latter hath carried... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - 1861 - 470 páginas
...went thither as to a market. This drew a mighty trade, the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom...knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to converse." If such were the booksellers of a past age, those of the present day need not shrink from any comparison... | |
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Britain was a plentiful and perpetual emporium of learned authors ; and men went thither as to a market. This drew to the place a mighty trade ; the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed... 
