And, O, be sure the critics lay in wait to catch the young scribbler tripping!
A] The memoirs of a scribbler who saw the prospects of life close on him while he imagined that his contemporaries were unjust, are instructive to literary men.
In the close of life, this veteran scribbler found admission to the Charter-house; and in that hospital, in the year 1724, died the rival of Dryden.
Its severity exceeded the crime of having produced an unreadable volume of indigested erudition; and the learned scribbler was too hardly used, scarcely escaping with life.
He asserts that the popish prelates, in the reign of Mary, were the first who invented this new torture of depriving a scribbler of pen and ink.
During that interval the eternal scribbler was daily gorging himself with voluminous food, and daily fattening his cooped-up capon.
Nothing less than the impudence of a scribbler of nonsense like Hegel, could, it is true, be found to venture upon this last step.
Johnson's description of its author as a "scribbler for a party," and indicates that Oldmixon must have been devoted to gathering examples of what appeared to him to be the good and bad in literature.
My scribbler then squeezes his hand, calls him the best of friends, thanks him for his sincerity, and tells him that he hates to be flattered.
The equation on the page of his scribbler began to spread out a widening tail, eyed and starred like a peacock's; and, when the eyes and stars of its indices had been eliminated, began slowly to fold itself together again.
He tore a sheet from his scribbler and passed it down, whispering: --In case of necessity any layman or woman can do it.
Or it may have been Samuel Holland, a great scribbler on public occasions.
The very sound of this man's name is an insult upon truth and justice"; and the dissolutescribbler then pours the contents of his ink-pot over Marshall's X.
In the name of common sense, what can that scribbler mean by this assertion?
He was since a hired Scribbler in the Daily Courant.
He was afterwards a hired scribblerin the Daily Courant.
Tis not for a mere scribblerto intrude upon the chaste mysteries of the toilet.
What an abbreviator and clawer off of lawsuits, reconciler of differences, examiner and fumbler of bags, peruser of bills, scribbler of rough drafts, and engrosser of deeds would he not make!
He recognised that Vane, poverty stricken scribbler though he might be, was a gentleman.
He'd give that to have the pleasure of running the scribbler through the body.
But a penniless scribbler has no choice if he has to live--that is if life be worth living, which I sometimes doubt.
In fact, however, I suspect that the politics will be a very inconsiderable feature in this organ of fine arts and manners; some amateur scribbler in the beau monde will supply them.
As it is I can only offer my sincere wishes for your success, if you will believe it possible for a brother scribbler to be sincere on such an occasion.
I do not think that he felt any; he was too fully occupied in collecting the spoils of victory to trouble his head about what a Scribbler or a Salt Horse might think of him.
Cary's reputation for discretion must be very high in the little village where he lives if it is able to guarantee so disreputable a scribbler as Bennet Copplestone!
His practical tribute to the memory of Werner, who called him a fop and a "scribbler of songs," has been cited.
Indeed, he described his associate as "a mere fop" and "a scribbler of songs.
I don't know just how it came about, but the spinster scribbler developed a jealous streak and upbraided Will for being ungrateful for all she had done for him.
The average reader has no way of knowing that these articles are not written by the actress herself, but by a needy scribbler to whom she grants permission to use her name, for the free advertising she will get in return.
The work I do on the Daily Scribbler doesn't amount to anything.
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