 | Charles Welsh - 1885 - 428 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." Upon this, Mr Forster, in his Life of Goldsmith, raises a whole fabric of ingenious speculation. He... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 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 ist of July, when he and I and Dr. Goldsmith supped at the Mitre. I was... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - 1892 - 460 pages
...the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I would soon return ; and having gone to a bookseller, sold...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield appeared after Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett had gained their fame... | |
 | William John Loftie - 1893 - 158 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,...his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high voice for having used him so ill.' In Wine Office Court he wrote the ' Vicar of Wakefield,' and removed... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 pages
...which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should return soon ; and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." But speedily relenting, he called her to share in a bowl of punch. The novel in question was no other... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 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. (FrQm JOHNSON'S PECULIARITIES OF MANNER HE had another particularity of which none of his friends even... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 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 the Same.) JOHNSON'S PECULIARITIES OF MANNER HE had another particularity of which... | |
 | Truman Jay Backus - 1897 - 508 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." — Bagwell's Life of Johnson. The best proof of Goldsmith's clever humor in this drama is the constancy... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1897 - 300 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 about three hours, said he had been with an enraged author, whose landlady pressed him for payment... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1899 - 296 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."1 Such is Boswell's report, taken, as he says, "authentically" from Johnson's "own exact 1 Boswell's... | |
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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... 
