 ... 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 soon return, and having gone to a bookseller sold it for sixty pounds....  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 4441840Full view - About this book
 | John Forster - 1855 - 528 pages
...produced to me. I looked into it, and saw " its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return ; and, having " gone to 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... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - Dramatists, English - 1856 - 424 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...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill.'— Boswell'3 Johnson, vol. ip 398. joining to the churchyard of Kilmore, but not within the pale of the... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - Dramatists, English - 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...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 of... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 574 pages
...he produced to me. I looked into it and saw its merit; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds....landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." Cumberland makes a feeling allusion to these circumstances in the following expressive stanzas : —... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 450 pages
...:J:/.Y YORK DR JOHNSON READING- THE! 'v IC ARr merit ; told the landlady I should soon return ; and, having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds....landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." The novel in question was the " Vicar of Wakefleld : " the bookseller to whom Johnson sold it was Francis... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 336 pages
...told the landlady I should soon return ; and, having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. 1 brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." The novel in question was the " Vicar of Wakefield :" the bookseller to whom Johnson sold it was Francis... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...Into It, and saw its merit; told the landlady I should soon return ; ani having gone to a bookst-llcr, sold It for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he dis charged bis rent, not without mUng his landlady In a high tone for having used him so ill." •... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - London - 1859 - 478 pages
...he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds....rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him BO ill." * Johnson himself lived for some time in the Temple. It was there that he was first visited... | |
 | Adolph Heimann - 1859 - 446 pages
...produced59 to me. I looked into it60, and saw its merit01, told the landlady I should soon return6*, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds....I brought Goldsmith the money , and he discharged ° 3 his rent , not without rating64 his landlady in a high65 tone66 for having S5ltn6«fonnenfecit.... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return ; and, having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds....landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." 4 who affects such extreme accuracy, should say that Hawkins has strangely mix-stated this affair,... | |
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