| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 656 pagina’s
...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...his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." Newberry, the purchaser of the Vicar of Wakefield, best known to the present generation by recollection... | |
| 1850 - 642 pagina’s
...and began to talk to 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...his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." The novel was the " Vicar of Wakefield," and the bookseller to whom it was sold was Mr. Francis... | |
| Polyphilus (pseud.) - 1844 - 268 pagina’s
...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...return ; and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for £60." — BosweWs Life of Johnson. Masonic Anecdote. It is now some twenty years since, that Captain... | |
| 1848 - 614 pagina’s
...began to talk to him of the means by which be 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 the landlady 1 should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds." "This," says Boswell,... | |
| 1848 - 640 pagina’s
...extricating him ; was shown " The Vicar of Wakefield," which he took to a bookseller's, and sold for £60. " I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady for using him so ill." Mrs. Piozzi, telling the same story, makes the time evening ; and represents... | |
| 1848 - 634 pagina’s
...extricating him ; was shown "The Vicar of Wakefield," which he took to a bookseller's, and sold for £60. "I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady for using him so ill." Mrs. Piozzi, telling the same story, makes the time evening ; and represents... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pagina’s
...the means by which he. might be extricated. He then lold me that he had a novel ready for the preu, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw...his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." Mr. Newberry was the person with whom Johnson thus bargained for the "Vicar of Wakefield." The... | |
| People - 1845 - 348 pagina’s
...might be extricated. lie then told me he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. 1 looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady...his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." Cumberland has added to this anecdote a piece of romance — related afterwards, perhaps as a... | |
| James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pagina’s
...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...his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill'-." 1 [How Mr. Boswell, who affecis sucli extreme accuracy, should any that Hawkins has strangely... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 614 pagina’s
...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...his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill. — JOHNSON, in Boswell. CANDOUR. — Marivaux, a celebrated French writer of romances, who flourished... | |
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