 | 1838 - 782 էջ
...annum for a communication once a week was an offer " which the pride of genius disdained to accept." We hear much of purse-proud insolence ; but poets can sometimes be insolent on the conscious power of talent, as well as vulgar upstarts on the conscious power of purse. In 1795,... | |
 | Frederick Knight Hunt - 1850 - 326 էջ
...annum for a communication once a-week was an offer ' which the pride of genius disdained to accept.' We hear much of purse-proud insolence ; but poets can sometimes be insolent on the conscious power of talent, as well as vulgar upstarts on the conscious power of purse. In J... | |
 | Alexander Andrews - 1859 - 382 էջ
...write for him at a salary of a guinea a-week—a disdain which Daniel Stuart considered insolent: " We hear much of purse-proud insolence, but poets can sometimes be insolent on the conscious power of talents, as well as vulgar upstarts (can be) on the conscious power of purse."... | |
 | James Grant - 1871 - 478 էջ
...week. Burns indignantly rejected the offer; and Daniel Stuart, the proprietor of the MorningPost,in relation to the poet's doing so, expressed himself...these terms: "We hear much of purse-proud insolence, hut poets can sometimes be insolent in the conscious power of talents, as well as vulgar upstarts can... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1874 - 810 էջ
...whose presumption was thus described by one of the most energetic of the newspaper producers :—" We hear much of purse-proud insolence, but poets can sometimes be insolent on the conscious power of talent, as well as vulgar upstarts can be on the conscious power of purse.... | |
 | James Routledge - 1876 - 680 էջ
...poet's manly and indignant refusal. Mr. Daniel Stuart's report of the facts is exquisite. He wrote : " We hear much of purse-proud insolence, but poets can...would surely have been more honourable than that of an excise-ganger." We may fairly question this; but Mr. Daniel Stuart deserves thanks for leaving so... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1880 - 1316 էջ
...whose presumption was thus described by one of the most energetic pf the newspaper producers :—" We hear much of purse-proud insolence, but poets can sometimes be insolent on the conscious power of talent, as well as vulgar upstarts can be on the conscious power of purse... | |
 | Alexander Andrews - 1859 - 380 էջ
...write for him at a salary of a guinea a-week—a disdain which Daniel Stuart considered insolent: " We hear much of purse-proud insolence, but poets can sometimes be insolent on the conscious power of talents, as well as vulgar upstarts (can be) on the conscious power of purse."... | |
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relation to the poet's doing so, expressed himself in these terms: "We hear much of purse-proud insolence, but poets can sometimes be insolent in the conscious power of talents, as well as vulgar upstarts can be in the conscious power of their purse.... 