 | Sydney Castle Roberts - 1919 - 210 pages
...with very good company, at the Pine Apple in New-street, just by. Several of them had travelled. They expected to meet every day ; but did not know one...than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing.'" Johnson was, as Boswell says, "an ad venturer in literature." What kind of place was this London of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1923 - 372 pages
...with very good company, at the Pine-Apple in New-street, just by. Several of them had travelled. They expected to meet every day ; but did not know one...than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." [He returned to Lichfield in the summer and finished his tragedy Irene, which was not acted until 1749.... | |
 | 1923 - 142 pages
...with very good company, at the Pine-Apple in Newstreet, just by. Several of them had travelled. They expected to meet every day ; but did not know one...than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." . . . was enough to enable a man to live there without being contemptible. He allowed ten pounds for... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1178 pages
...with very good company, at the Pine-Apple in Newstreet, just by. Several of them had traveled. They capable of rational inquiry." From this time forward...Christian, he lamented that his practice of its duties entirely from fermented liquors: a practice to which he rigidly conformed for many years together,... | |
 | Clara Elizabeth Laughlin - 1926 - 652 pages
...— for it is near Saint Martin's Lane, a goodish bit northwest]; several of them had travelled; they expected to meet every day, but did not know one another's...than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing.' • It was while he was lodging here, and working for the Gentlemen's Magazine, that an Irish painter... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 670 pages
...with very good company, at the PineApple in New-street, just by. Several of them had travelled. They expected to meet every day ; but did not know one...than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." Us at this time, I believe, abstained entirely from fermented 1 One curious anecdote was communicated... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 544 pages
...with very good company, at the Pine-Apple in Newstreet, just by. Several of them had travelled. They expected to meet every day ; but did not know one...than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." * One curious anecdote was communicated by himself to Mr. John Nichols. Mr. Wilcox, the bookseller,... | |
 | 1890 - 774 pages
...Pine-apple," in New Street. " It used to cost the rest a Charlee Dickens.] shilling, for they drank wine ; bat I had a cut of meat for sixpence, and bread for a...than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." At the "King's Head"— "a famous beef-steak house," in Ivy Lane, he founded one of his clubs ; while... | |
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I dined (said he) very well for eight-pence, with very good company, at the PineApple in New-street, just by. Several of them had travelled. They expected to meet every day ; but did not know one another's names. It used to cost the rest a shilling, for... 
