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... once ; £ 20 on seeing the last proofs ; and the balance within three months . The only agreement made between author and publisher was the interchange of letters ratifying the above proposition . The lady's friends lent her the money ...
... once ; £ 20 on seeing the last proofs ; and the balance within three months . The only agreement made between author and publisher was the interchange of letters ratifying the above proposition . The lady's friends lent her the money ...
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... once , and only once , in a certain quarter . This done , the work becomes again his own property . Next , when all the writers have been paid , the balance , if any , is equally divided among the writers in proportion to the length of ...
... once , and only once , in a certain quarter . This done , the work becomes again his own property . Next , when all the writers have been paid , the balance , if any , is equally divided among the writers in proportion to the length of ...
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... once has it been asked by the Council of this Society why this remuneration of the literary man is so small - why his calling is so uncertain . Well it is small and uncertain because there is no rule arrived at as to the share which he ...
... once has it been asked by the Council of this Society why this remuneration of the literary man is so small - why his calling is so uncertain . Well it is small and uncertain because there is no rule arrived at as to the share which he ...
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... once began to receive letters from friends , acquaintances , and book - sellers , complaining that they could not obtain copies through the ordinary channels . Mr. Mudie also informed me privately that my publisher was I wrote re- quite ...
... once began to receive letters from friends , acquaintances , and book - sellers , complaining that they could not obtain copies through the ordinary channels . Mr. Mudie also informed me privately that my publisher was I wrote re- quite ...
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... once more their old melodious chime " but once or twice in a century , and then only to the Sunday child who is born to hear what is inaudible to the Philistine . But before the last kling of this extraordinary instrument dies away , it ...
... once more their old melodious chime " but once or twice in a century , and then only to the Sunday child who is born to hear what is inaudible to the Philistine . But before the last kling of this extraordinary instrument dies away , it ...
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Página 207 - WHEN HE WOULD HAVE HIS VERSES READ. In sober mornings, do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse ; But when that men have both well drunk, and fed, Let my enchantments then be sung or read. When laurel spirts i...