 | John Thomas Smith - 1861 - 470 páginas
...This drew a mighty trade, the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladlyresorted to them, where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable...knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to converse." If such wore the booksellers of a past age, thoae of the present day need not shrink from any comparison... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1865 - 348 páginas
...contemporaries. Roger North described the booksellers of Little Britain as " knowing and conversable men, with whom, for the sake of bookish knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to converse." But with John Dunton, many of them are almost miracles of talent and learning. One is " a man of very... | |
 | 1866 - 978 páginas
...thither as to a market. This drew a mighty trade, the rallier because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom...knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to converse." In the year lfi«4 no less than 4(ifl pamphlets were published in Little Britain. St. Paul's Churchyard... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 902 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...as well spent there as (in latter days) either in tavern or coffee-house. But now this emporium has vanished, and the trade contracted into the hands... | |
 | John Timbs - 1868 - 896 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...themselves were knowing and conversible men, with WDTB, for the sake of bookish knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to converse ; and we may jud)re... | |
 | Perry and co, ltd - 1876 - 1022 páginas
...to a market. This drew 1o the place a mighty trade, the rather because the shops were spacious and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom...; and the booksellers themselves were knowing and conversable men, with whom, for the sake of bookish knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to converse... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1876 - 804 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Grognall Didbin - 1876 - 750 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...conversation. And the booksellers themselves were knowing and convcrsible men, with whom, for the sake of bookish knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to converse.... | |
 | 1892 - 550 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...conversation ; and the booksellers themselves were known and conversible men, with whom, for the sake of bookish knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1881 - 606 páginas
...failed to meet with agreeable conversation. And the booksellers themselves were knowing and conversable men, with whom, for the sake of bookish knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to conTerse. And we may judge the time as well spent there as (in latter days) either in tavern or coffeehouse... | |
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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... 
