 | James Whiteside - Great Britain - 1868 - 518 pages
...the means by which he might be extricated. He " then told that he had a novel ready for the press, which he " produced to me. I looked into it, and saw...sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith "the money, and discharged his rent — not without rating his " landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill."... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - English poetry - 1869 - 306 pages
...him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it and saw...his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." The novel was " The Vicar of Wakefield," that captivating story many of whose phrases have passed... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1870 - 644 pages
...ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it and saw its merit ; told the landlady 1 should soon return ; and, having gone to a bookseller,...his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." The novel in question was the " Vicar of Wakefield " ; the bookseller to whom Johnson sold it... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1871 - 510 pages
...the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw...his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." From Wine-office Court, Goldsmith removed to the house of a Mrs. Elizabeth Fleming, at Islington,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 pages
...him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw...his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." The novel in question was the " Vicar of Wakefield;" the bookseller to whom Johnson sold it was... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Biography - 1872 - 740 pages
...the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a work ready for the press, which he produced to me, I looked into it, and saw...his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." The bookseller to whom Johnson sold the work was Francis Newbery, nephew to the publisher of... | |
 | John Timbs - Humorists, English - 1872 - 434 pages
...him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw...for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and be discharged hU rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill."... | |
 | John Forster - 1873 - 806 pages
...means by which he might be "extricated.* He then told me "that he had a novel ready for "the press, which he produced "to me. I looked into it, and "...his landlady in a "high tone for having used him "so ill."** * Mr. Croker has pointed out that George Steevens (in the London Magazine, LV. 253) tells,... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked mto a .p. high tone for having used him so ill.' a 1 Aneedota o/ЛАasos, p. 119.— * 'Life »f Johnson,... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw...his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." Dr. John Campbell, the celebrated political and biographical writer, being mentioned in the course... | |
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I put the cork into the bottle, desired he 'Would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit; told... 
