 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 656 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...his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." Newberry, the purchaser of the Vicar of Wakefield, best known to the present generation by recollection... | |
 | 1850 - 642 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 novel was the " Vicar of Wakefield," and the bookseller to whom it was sold was Mr. Francis... | |
 | Polyphilus (pseud.) - 1844 - 268 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...return ; and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for £60." — BosweWs Life of Johnson. Masonic Anecdote. It is now some twenty years since, that Captain... | |
 | 1848 - 614 pàgines
...began to talk to him of the means by which be 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 1 should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds." "This," says Boswell,... | |
 | 1848 - 640 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... | |
 | 1848 - 634 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pàgines
...the means by which he. might be extricated. He then lold me that he had a novel ready for the preu, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw...his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." Mr. Newberry was the person with whom Johnson thus bargained for the "Vicar of Wakefield." The... | |
 | People - 1845 - 348 pàgines
...might be extricated. lie then told me he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. 1 looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady...his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." Cumberland has added to this anecdote a piece of romance — related afterwards, perhaps as a... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 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...his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill'-." 1 [How Mr. Boswell, who affecis sucli extreme accuracy, should any that Hawkins has strangely... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 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...his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill. — JOHNSON, in Boswell. CANDOUR. — Marivaux, a celebrated French writer of romances, who flourished... | |
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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 into it, and saw its merit ; told... 
