 | 1853 - 444 pages
...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...return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixtypounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 348 pages
...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."* Mr Newbery, the bookseller here alluded to, had such faint expectations from his purchase, that... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 642 pages
...talk to him " of the means by which he might be extricated.t He then " told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he " produced to me. I...Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not * Anecdotes, 119-20. Mrs. Thrale fixes the date of the incident as not later than 1765 or 6 ; but it... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 614 pages
...-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...landlady I should soon return ; and, having gone to a hookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1854 - 292 pages
...for the press, which he produced to me. 1 j looked into it, and saw its merit; told the landlady T should \ soon return, and having gone to a bookseller,...sold it for sixty (' pounds. I brought Goldsmith the riioney, and he discharged ) his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for ^> having... | |
 | 1883 - 846 pages
...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 merits, told the landlady I should soon return ; and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1854 - 396 pages
...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 into it and £a\v its merit; told the landlady I should soon return; and, having gone to a bookseller, sold it... | |
 | John Forster - 1855 - 528 pages
...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...a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Gold' ' smith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating " his landlady in a high tone... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 456 pages
...talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel leady for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into...his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill. — JOHMSON, in Bottcell. CANDOUR. — Marivaux, a celebrated French writer of romances, who flourished... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1856 - 414 pages
...to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return ; and hurrying to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought...his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill.' — BoswelVs Johnson, vol. ip 398. joining to the churchyard of Kilmore, but not within the pale... | |
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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... 
