ISBN: 9781153587433

Excerpt: ...of professional reputation which their publication has already procured me. As to delight, I believe I could, under any oath that could be proposed, swear that I never experie… More...

Excerpt: ...of professional reputation which their publication has already procured me. As to delight, I believe I could, under any oath that could be proposed, swear that I never experienced such great and unmixed pleasure in all my life as the reading of this exquisite work has afforded me; and if you witnessed the wet eyes and grinning cheeks with which, as the author''s chamberlain, I receive the unanimous and vehement praise of them from every one who has read them, or heard the curses of those whose needs my scanty supply would not satisfy, you might judge of the sincerity with which I now entreat you to assure the author of the most complete success. After this, I could throw all the other books which I have in the press into the Thames, for no one will either read them or buy. Lord Holland said, when I asked his opinion: Opinion? we did not one of us go to bed all night, and nothing slept but my gout. Frere, Hallam, and Boswell; Lord Glenbervie came to me with tears in his eyes. It is a cordial, he said, which has saved Lady Glenbervie''s life. Heber, who found it on his table on his arrival from a journey, had no rest till he had read it. He has only this moment left me, and he, with many others, agrees that it surpasses all the other novels. Wm. Lamb also; Gifford never read anything like it, he says; and his estimate of it absolutely increases at each recollection of it. Barrow with great difficulty was forced to read it; and he said yesterday, Very good, to be sure, but what powerful writing is thrown away. Heber says there are only two men in the world, Walter Scott and Lord Byron. Between you, you have given existence to a third. Ever your faithful servant, JOHN MURRAY. This letter did not effectually draw the badger. Scott replied in the following humorous but Jesuitical epistle: Mr. Scott to John Murray. December 18, 1816. MY DEAR SIR, I give you hearty joy of the success of the Tales, although I do not claim that paternal interest in... Samuel Smiles, Books, History, A Publisher And His Friends Books>History The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Publishers and publishing; Biography<

ISBN: 9781153587433

Excerpt: ...of professional reputation which their publication has already procured me. As to delight, I believe I could, under any oath that could be proposed, swear that I never experie… More...

Excerpt: ...of professional reputation which their publication has already procured me. As to delight, I believe I could, under any oath that could be proposed, swear that I never experienced such great and unmixed pleasure in all my life as the reading of this exquisite work has afforded me; and if you witnessed the wet eyes and grinning cheeks with which, as the author''s chamberlain, I receive the unanimous and vehement praise of them from every one who has read them, or heard the curses of those whose needs my scanty supply would not satisfy, you might judge of the sincerity with which I now entreat you to assure the author of the most complete success. After this, I could throw all the other books which I have in the press into the Thames, for no one will either read them or buy. Lord Holland said, when I asked his opinion: Opinion? we did not one of us go to bed all night, and nothing slept but my gout. Frere, Hallam, and Boswell; Lord Glenbervie came to me with tears in his eyes. It is a cordial, he said, which has saved Lady Glenbervie''s life. Heber, who found it on his table on his arrival from a journey, had no rest till he had read it. He has only this moment left me, and he, with many others, agrees that it surpasses all the other novels. Wm. Lamb also; Gifford never read anything like it, he says; and his estimate of it absolutely increases at each recollection of it. Barrow with great difficulty was forced to read it; and he said yesterday, Very good, to be sure, but what powerful writing is thrown away. Heber says there are only two men in the world, Walter Scott and Lord Byron. Between you, you have given existence to a third. Ever your faithful servant, JOHN MURRAY. This letter did not effectually draw the badger. Scott replied in the following humorous but Jesuitical epistle: Mr. Scott to John Murray. December 18, 1816. MY DEAR SIR, I give you hearty joy of the success of the Tales, although I do not claim that paternal interest in... Samuel Smiles, Books, History, A Publisher And His Friends Books>History, General Books LLC<

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