How insupportable to have one’s daily path beset by a great Birmingham Fame, with her blowzy cheeks and her squeaking trumpet, flapping her wings in one’s face, and making a dust wherever one stirred. 一本伊丽莎白时期的英国小说
前面一句是 There are, no doubt, many who can and do sustain the part of an authoress to admiration; but it must be at some cost of time, and ease, and comfort. Indeed,for my own part, I should think it such a very tiresome thing to be authorised, and lionised, and newspaperised, and annualised, and albumised, that I am sure it would mot lead to my ever being canonised: truly it would require the patience of Job and the strength of Sampson to bear with it.