 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 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 service to me, and, I trust, will be so to many others....Empereur, Utrecht. '• London, 8th Dec., 1763. " DF.AK ill a." 1 [How Mr. Boswell, who affects such extreme accuracy, should say that Hawkins has strangely... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 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 ly famous. They were all of them exceeded by the late...qualified, being destitute of virtue for the one, hi* landlady in a high tone for having used him so UL" Mr. Newberry was the person with whom Johnson... | |
 | University magazine - 1848 - 792 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... | |
 | 642 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...should soon return ; and having gone to a bookseller' », fold it for sixty pounds— It was ' The Vicar of Wakefielil.'" Thousands of instances might be... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 550 pagina’s
...•llx nl ii detail of it as narrated by Johnson hiin«ff. *I received one morning a message from poor ertain sign of their Ix'ing shortly hi» landlady in a high tone for having used him so Ш." Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1845 - 700 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...landlady I should soon return ; and having gone to a bookseller's, sold it for sixty pounds— It was ' The Vicar of Wakefield."' Thousands of instances... | |
 | 1840 - 560 pagina’s
...began to talk to him of the means hy 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 the landlady I should .-»<>n return ; utid, having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the... | |
 | 1840 - 576 pagina’s
...might bn exiricuu-d. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to inc. I looked into it and saw its merit ; told the landlady I tthnuld noon return ; mil, having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. 1 brought Goldemit... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 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 bookseller, Mr. Newberry, had but little hope for the sucoess of the work, and kept it by... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pagina’s
...the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the prese, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw...his landlady in a high tone for having used him so Ш." Mr. Newberry was the person with whom Johnson thus bargained for the "Vicar of Wakefield." The... | |
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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... 
