No; all literary men are not lick-spittles, whether in Italy or Spain, or, indeed, upon the Continent; it is only in England that all--" "Come," said I, "mind what you are about to say of English literary men." "Why should I mind ?" said the man in black, "there are no literary men here.

I have heard of literary men living in garrets, but not in dingles, whatever philologists may do; I may, therefore, speak out freely.

It is only in England that literary men are invariably lick-spittles; on which account, perhaps, they are so despised, even by those who benefit by their dirty services.

Look at your fashionable novel writers, he! he! and above all at your newspaper editors, ho! ho!" "You will, of course, except the editors of the -- - from your censure of the last class ?" said I.
"Them!" said the man in black; "why, they might serve as models in the dirty trade to all the rest who practise it.

See how they bepraise their patrons, the grand Whig nobility, who hope, by raising the cry of liberalism, and by putting themselves at the head of the populace, to come into power shortly.