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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... "
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ... - Page 112
by James Boswell - 1827 - 580 pages
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Shadows of the Old Booksellers

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,...
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Dalziels' Illustrated Goldsmith: Comprising ...

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...
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Routledge's Every Boy's Annual

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...
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Home Pictures of English Poets, for Fireside and Schoolroom

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...
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Works of Washington Irving: Goldsmith

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...
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London: It's Celebrated Characters And Remarkable Places

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,...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

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...
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Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2

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...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson

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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