| Walter Scott - 1834 - 506 страници
...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 in a high tone for having used him so ill." i Newberry, the purchaser of the Vicar of Wakefield, best known to the present generation by recollection... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 484 страници
...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...having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. 1 brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 378 страници
...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 in a high tone for having used him so ill." (') (1) It may not be improper to annex here Mrs. Piozzi's account of this transaction, in her own... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 604 страници
...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 a." 1 [How Mr. Boswell, who affects such extreme accuracy, should say that Hawkins has strangely mis-staled... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...•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 страници
...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 страници
...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... | |
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