 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller,...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill 9." 1 [How Mr. Boswell, who affects such extreme accuracy, should nay that Hawkins hits strangely mu-ttated... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 492 pages
...ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and, having gone to a bookseller,...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." i 1 Newberry, the purchaser of the Vicar of Wake.field, best known to the present generation by recollection... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 506 pages
...ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and, having gone to a bookseller,...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." i Newberry, the purchaser of the Vicar of Wakefield, best known to the present generation by recollection... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit; told the landlady I should soon return; and, having gone to a bookseller,...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 pages
...ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit; told the landlady I cht. '• London, 8th Dec., 1763. " DF.AK a." 1 [How Mr. Boswell, who affects such extreme accuracy, should say that Hawkins has strangely mis-staled... | |
 | 1840 - 560 pages
...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....landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill.* This novel was the 'Vicar of Wakefield,' which was so little appreciated by the bookseller who purchased... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller,...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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...ready for the prese, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit; told the landlady I should soon return; and having gone to a bookseller...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... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 656 pages
...ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit; told the landlady I should soon return, and, having gone to a bookseller,...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 pages
...ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return ; and, having gone to a bookseller,...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 Newbury.... | |
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... 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. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked... 
