| Charles Knight - 1865 - 348 pages
...for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merits ; told the landlady I should soon return ; and, having gone to a bookseller,...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." Although Francis Newbery eventually succeeded to the business of his uncle in St. Paul's Churchyard,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Henry William Dulcken - 1865 - 410 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 book thus sold for sixty pounds was the " Vicar of Wakefield," a work never surpassed for wonderful... | |
| 1865 - 1136 pages
...Illustrated Goldsmith. With one hundred pictures. By GJ Pinwell. Ward & Lock, London. 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 who purchased this work was Francis Newbery, and yet, so little did he appreciate its... | |
| Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 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," that captivating story many of whose phrases have passed into... | |
| Washington Irving - 1870 - 644 pages
...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 novel in question was the " Vicar of Wakefield " ; the bookseller to whom Johnson sold it was Francis... | |
| J. Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 508 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." From "Wine-office Court, Goldsmith removed to the house of a Mrs. Elizabeth Fleming, at Islington,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 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... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 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 to whom Johnson sold the work was Francis Newbery, nephew to the publisher of the "Citizen... | |
| John Forster - 1873 - 806 pages
..."the press, which he produced "to me. I looked into it, and " saw its merit ; told the landlady "I should soon return; and, hav"ing gone to a bookseller,...landlady in a "high tone for having used him "so ill."** * Mr. Croker has pointed out that George Steevens (in the London Magazine, LV. 253) tells, curiously... | |
| James Boswell - 1873 - 620 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,...his landlady in a high tone for having used him so UL' a 1 Antedates of Johnson, p. 119. — BOSWELL. s Life of Johnson, p. 420. — BOSWELL. ' It may... | |
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