It is very much as if the public were to insist on admission to theatres and exhibitions on its own terms, the principle of the O. […] Theirs indeed is but too often the lion’s share, as I know by my own experience. […] My books, thank Heaven and the liberality of the gentlemen at whose office they are printed, are my own. […] Their own house remained, and, as they gazed and deplored the fate of their neighbours it became a temple. […] The queen of beauty was irritated on seeing her own altars neglected, and her adorers diminishing.