 ... 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
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 436 pages
...merits ; told the landlady I should soon return, and, having gone to a bookseller, sold it for £60. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating the landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." What that novel is we shall know hereafter... | |
 | Children's literature - 1865 - 1136 pages
...hundred pictures. By GJ Pinwell. Ward & Lock, London. 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 bookseller who purchased this work was Francis Newbery, and yet, so little did he appreciate its... | |
 | Charles Knight - Booksellers and bookselling - 1865 - 366 pages
...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 pounds....landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." Although Francis Newbery eventually succeeded to the business of his uncle in St. Paul's Churchyard,... | |
 | 1867 - 874 pages
...produced i" 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 the rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for... | |
 | James Whiteside - Great Britain - 1868 - 498 pages
...return, and having gone to a " bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith " the money, and discharged his rent — not without rating his " landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." It is evident Goldsmith had considered long and deeply his subject, and had elaborated the work with... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1911 - 664 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. ._ , _ . b (From the Same.) JOHNSON'S PECULIARITIES OF MANNER HE had another particularity of which... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...it, and saw its merit; told the landlady I should return, and, having gone to a bookseller, sold K for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." [DR. JOHNSON AND GEORGE m] In February, 1767, there happened one of the most remarkable incidents of... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...it, and saw its merit; told the landlady I should return, and, having gone to a bookseller, sold ii. for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." [DR. JOHNSON AND GEORGE H1] In February, 1767, there happened one of the most remarkable incidents... | |
 | James Boswell - 1912 - 106 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." . . . He had increased my admiration of the goodness of Johnson's heart by incidental remarks in the... | |
 | Arthur St. John Adcock - Artists - 1912 - 412 pages
...produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit. I 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." Everything points to Mrs. Fleming as that harsh landlady, and the lodging in her cottage at Islington... | |
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