 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 484 pagina’s
...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...having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. 1 brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pagina’s
...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...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." (') (1) It may not be improper to annex here Mrs. Piozzi's account of this transaction, in her own... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pagina’s
...talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready ce to me, and, I trust, will be so to many others....Empereur, Utrecht. '• London, 8th Dec., 1763. " DF.AK a." 1 [How Mr. Boswell, who affects such extreme accuracy, should say that Hawkins has strangely mis-staled... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pagina’s
...talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready ous. They were all of them exceeded by the late Lord...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
...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...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
...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...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
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pagina’s
...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 into...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 him,... | |
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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... 
