 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked mto it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return ; and, having gone to a bookseller,...discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in .p. high tone for having used him so ill.' a 1 Aneedota o/ЛАasos, p. 119.— * 'Life »f Johnson,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 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." a My next meeting with Johnson was on Friday the ist of July, when he and I and Dr. Goldsmith supped... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 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." Dr. John Campbell, the celebrated political and biographical writer, being mentioned in the course... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1874 - 446 pages
...ready 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."— Soswell's Life of Johnson. of Honey wood, whose house and person they have seized. But in She Stoops... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 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,...for having used him so ill." My next meeting with Johnson was on Friday, the 1st of July, when he and I and Dr. Goldsmith supped at the Mitre. I was... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 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 was probably induced to purchase the manuscript on the recommendation of Johnson, for... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 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."— Boswell. WAEEIOE vs. PHILOSOPHER.—We talked of war. Johnson: "Every man thinks meanly of himself... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1881 - 952 pages
...press, which he produced to me. I looked into it and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soou return ; and, having gone to a bookseller, sold it...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." The novel in question was the " Vicar of Wakcfield :" the bookseller to whom Johnson sold it was Francis... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 966 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 WakufielJ :" the bookseller to whom Johnson sold it was Francis... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 714 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,...rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone tor having used him so ill." The novel in question was the " Vicar of Wakefield" ; the bookseller to... | |
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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... 
