 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 pages
...the presp, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit; told the landlady I snould soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill.— BoswelVs Life of Johnson. "The little republic to which I gave laws was regulated in the following... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 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." In 1768 appeared his drama of the Good-Natured Man, one of the most genial comedies in the language.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 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 words,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 528 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 ill."3 The Mr. Newbery, the bookseller here alluded to, 1 Sir Walter Scott has pointed out some improbabilities... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 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,...his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill."2 The Mr. Newbery, the bookseller here alluded to, 1 Sir Walter Scott has pointed out some improbabilities... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, Truman Jay Backus - 1884 - 504 pages
...to me. I looked into it and saw its merits ; told the landlady I should soon return ; and, iavim.' gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I...rating his landlady in a high tone for having used turn mi UL"— Boswdle Ufe of Johnson-. dead lather : "For," says John Forster in his life of Goldsmith,... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - 1885 - 384 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. In 1764 Johnson found Goldsmith in a humble set of chambers at No. 2 Garden Court, Middle Temple, near... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 648 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." However, the bookseller did not issue the tale until two years afterwards — in 1766. It proved to... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - 1885 - 414 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. In 1764- Johnson found Goldsmith in a humble set of chambers at No. 2 Garden Court, Middle Temple,... | |
 | Oxford univ, local exams - 1885 - 358 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. THURSDAY, JUNE 12, from 11 AM to 1 PM 2 (d). German.... | |
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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... 
