| James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pàgines
...began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel service to me, and, I trust, will be so to many others....Empereur, Utrecht. '• London, 8th Dec., 1763. " DF.AK ill a." 1 [How Mr. Boswell, who affects such extreme accuracy, should say that Hawkins has strangely... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pàgines
...began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ly famous. They were all of them exceeded by the late...qualified, being destitute of virtue for the one, hi* landlady in a high tone for having used him so UL" Mr. Newberry was the person with whom Johnson... | |
| University magazine - 1848 - 792 pàgines
...extricating him ; was shown "The Vicar of Wakefield," which he took to a bookseller's, and sold for £60. "I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady for using him so ill." Mrs. Piozzi, telling the same story, makes the time evening ; and represents... | |
| 642 pàgines
...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...should soon return ; and having gone to a bookseller' », fold it for sixty pounds— It was ' The Vicar of Wakefielil.'" Thousands of instances might be... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 550 pàgines
...•llx nl ii detail of it as narrated by Johnson hiin«ff. *I received one morning a message from poor ertain sign of their Ix'ing shortly hi» landlady in a high tone for having used him so Ш." Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and... | |
| John William Carleton - 1845 - 700 pàgines
...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...landlady I should soon return ; and having gone to a bookseller's, sold it for sixty pounds— It was ' The Vicar of Wakefield."' Thousands of instances... | |
| 1840 - 560 pàgines
...began to talk to him of the means hy 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...into it and saw its merit; told the landlady I should .-»<>n return ; utid, having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the... | |
| 1840 - 576 pàgines
...might bn exiricuu-d. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to inc. I looked into it and saw its merit ; told the landlady I tthnuld noon return ; mil, having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. 1 brought Goldemit... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pàgines
...and 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...his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." The bookseller, Mr. Newberry, had but little hope for the sucoess of the work, and kept it by... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pàgines
...the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the prese, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw...his landlady in a high tone for having used him so Ш." Mr. Newberry was the person with whom Johnson thus bargained for the "Vicar of Wakefield." The... | |
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