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" I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him. 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. "
Plain Living and High Thinking; Or, Practical Self-culture: Moral, Mental ... - Page 194
by William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 360 pages
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The Churchman's companion, Volume 11

1852 - 788 pages
...Madeira and a t;lass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and bpgan to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. lie then told me he had a work ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and...
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The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events. St. Paul's to St ..., Volume 1

Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 328 pages
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The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events. St. Paul's to St ..., Volume 1

Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 328 pages
...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...looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith...
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Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith

Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...had was in a violent jdy changed my v.ira and a glass ' before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he ' would be calm, and began to talk to him...' 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...
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The life and adventures of Oliver Goldsmith

John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...' guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass ' before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he ' would be calm, and began to talk to him...' 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...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him...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...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pages
...my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him...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;...
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The life and adventures of Oliver Goldsmith

John Forster - 1848 - 744 pages
...madeira and a glass LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF [BOOK MI. ' before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he ' would be calm, and began to talk to him...' 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...
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The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events. St. Paul's to St ..., Volume 1

Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 328 pages
...put the cork into the bottle, * Boswell'a Life of Johnson, eighth edit., 8vo. 1816, vol. iv. p. 27. desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him...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...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 13

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...guinea, and got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired that 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,...
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