 | Samuel Johnson - 1865 - 426 pagina’s
...his views extensive, his conversation elegant, and his disposition cheerful. By degrees I gained hs confidence, and one day was admitted to him when he was immured by a bailiff that was prowling in I IK: street. On this occasion recourse was had to the booksellers, who, on the credit of a translation... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pagina’s
...of his time he lived often in fear of the debtor's prison. Johnson speaks of visiting him one day, "when he was immured by a bailiff that was prowling in the street," At last he was freed from his pecuniary difficulties by a legacy from an uncle of some ^2000... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1883 - 378 pagina’s
...resorted to this means of obtaining money. In Johnson's account of Collins, he says: — "One day [I] was admitted to him when he was immured by a bailiff that was prowling in the street. On this occasion recourse was had to the booksellers, who, on the credit of a translation of... | |
 | 1895 - 540 pagina’s
...poems, and did something, however little. sation elegant, and his disposition cheerful. By degrees I gained his confidence, and one day was admitted to...was immured by a bailiff •that was prowling in the street. On this occasion recourse was had to the booksellers, who, on the credit of a translation of... | |
 | William Collins - 1898 - 234 pagina’s
...Greatheart of poor literary pilgrims in " the wilderness of this world." " By degrees," says Johnson, "I gained his confidence; and one day was admitted to...was immured by a bailiff, that was prowling in the street. On this occasion recourse was had to the booksellers, who, on the credit of a translation of... | |
 | William Collins - 1898 - 236 pagina’s
...Greatheart of poor literary pilgrims in " the wilderness of this world." " By degrees," says Johnson, " I gained his confidence ; and one day was admitted to...was immured by a bailiff, that was prowling in the street. On this occasion recourse was had to the booksellers, who, on the credit of a translation of... | |
 | John N. Crawford - 1903 - 442 pagina’s
...under the greatest pressure, was unconquerable. Johnson relates a characteristic anecdote : One day I was admitted to him when he was immured by a bailiff that was prowling in the street. On this occasion recourse was had to the bookseller's, who on the credit of a translation of... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1904 - 452 pagina’s
...considerable, his views extensive, his conversation elegant, and his disposition cheerful. By degrees I gained his confidence ; and one day was admitted to...was immured by a bailiff, that was prowling in the street. On this occasion recourse was had to the booksellers, who, on the credit of a translation of... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 pagina’s
...considerable, his views extensive, his conversation elegant, and his disposition chearful. By degrees I gained his confidence ; and one day was admitted to...was immured by a bailiff that was prowling in the street. On this occasion recourse was had to the booksellers, who, on the credit of a translation of... | |
 | D. H. Rawlinson - 1968 - 254 pagina’s
...considerable, his views extensive, his conversation elegant, and his disposition cheerful. By degrees I gained his confidence; and one day was admitted to...was immured by a bailiff that was prowling in the street. On this occasion recourse was had to the booksellers, who, on the credit of a translation of... | |
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By degrees I gained his confidence ; and one day was admitted to him when he was immured by a bailiff that was prowling in the street. On this occasion recourse was had to the booksellers, who, on the credit of a translation of Aristotle's Poetics... 
