 | Thomas Grognall Didbin - 1876 - 750 pagine
...place a mighty trade ; the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable...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 pagine
...the place a mighty trade, the rather because the shops were spacious and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable...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 pagine
...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... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 490 pagine
...booksellers in 1666 and 1683. At the earlier time, " the shops were spacious and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable...knowledge, the greatest Wits were pleased to converse. . . . But now this Emporium is vanished and the Trade contracted into the Hands of two or three Persons,... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 500 pagine
...booksellers in 1666 and 1683. At the earlier time, "the shops were spacious and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable...knowledge, the greatest Wits were pleased to converse. . . . But now this Emporium is vanished and the Trade contracted into the Hands of two or three Persons,... | |
 | Halkett Lord, Richard Halkett - 1886 - 432 pagine
...the place a mighty trade: the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom 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 converse.... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 640 pagine
...place a mighty trade ; the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable...(in latter days) either in tavern or coffee-house. But now this emporium has vanished, and the trade contracted into the hands of two or three persons.... | |
 | Alexandre Beljame - 1897 - 648 pagine
...the Placea mighty Trade, the rather because (he shops were spacious. and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable...themselves were knowing and conversible men, with whom, for I ho sake of bookish knowledge, t he gréâtes t Wits were pleased to converse... But now this Emporium... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 pagine
...the place a mighty trade, the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable...booksellers themselves were knowing and conversible men.' Lives of the Norths, ed. 1826, iii. 294. * I seem to remember, that I played with a string and a bell,... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1914 - 606 pagine
...the place a mighty trade; the rather because the shops were spacious, and the learned gladly resorted to them, where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable...bookish knowledge, the greatest wits were pleased to converse.1 One of the chief of these Little Britain booksellers was Robert Scot, whom North describes... | |
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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 to meet with agreeable conversation ; and the booksellers themselves were knowing and conversible men,... 
