 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...it, and saw its merit ; told the land' lady I should soon return ; and having gone to a book' seller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith ' the...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill.' Nor does the rating seem altogether undeserved, since there cannot be a doubt that Mrs. Fleming was... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 744 pages
...it, and saw its merit ; told the land' lady I should soon return ; and having gone to a book' seller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith ' the...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill.' Nor does the rating seem altogether undeserved, since there cannot be a doubt that Mrs. Fleming was... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1850 - 502 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,...not without rating his landlady in a high tone for WINE-OFFICE COURT. 203 having used him so ill." From Wine-office Court, Goldsmith removed to the house... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 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 in question was the " Vicar of Wakefield :" the bookseller to whom Johnson sold it was Francis... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 402 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 in question was the " Vicar of Wakefield :'/ the bookseller to whom Johnson sold it was Francis... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 674 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 in question was the ' Vicar of Wakefield : ' the bookseller to whom Johnson sold it was Francis... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 1254 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." Cumberland has added to this anecdote a piece of Romance — related afterwards, perhaps as a jest,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 348 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."* Mr Newbery, the bookseller here alluded to, had such faint expectations from his purchase, that he... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 614 pages
...it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return ; and, having gone to a hookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill" The novel in question was the " Vicar of Wakefield ;" the bookseller to whom Johnson sold it was Francis... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1856 - 414 pages
...to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return ; and hurrying to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill.' — BoswelVs Johnson, vol. ip 398. joining to the churchyard of Kilmore, but not within the pale of... | |
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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... 
