Note 93 — Chapter XI
Reading edition
Gibbon. Memoirs of his Life and Writings, page 148.—Perhaps Gibbon had this excellent line of Mrs. Barbauld's in his memory:
"And pay a life of hardships with a line."
Reading edition
Gibbon. Memoirs of his Life and Writings, page 148.—Perhaps Gibbon had this excellent line of Mrs. Barbauld's in his memory:
"And pay a life of hardships with a line."