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" I was drest, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired... "
Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the ... - Page 481
by James Boswell - 1799
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pages
...sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, o, no science with which he was unacquainted, none...none which he did not leave better than he found it. a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm,...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his...already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began...
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The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography in Four Books, Volume 1

John Forster - 1848 - 734 pages
...him a guinea, and promised ' to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon . as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had ' arrested him for...already changed my ' guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass 310 ' before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he ' would be calm, and...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pages
...sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his...already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began...
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The life and adventures of Oliver Goldsmith

John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...him a guinea, and promised ' to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon ' as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had ' arrested him for...already changed my ' guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass ' before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he ' would be calm, and began...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott...

Walter Scott - 1848 - 490 pages
...and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and VOL. III. Q found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent,...that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a hottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would he calm,...
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The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events. St. Paul's to St ..., Volume 1

Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 328 pages
...a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went to him as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his...perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, * Boswell'a Life of Johnson,...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 13

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...directly. 1 accordingly went to him as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had alrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion....perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired that he would...
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The Church of England quarterly review, Volume 24

1848 - 524 pages
...which, when finished, was to be his whole fortune." Johnson, speaking in Boswell's " Life," says : — " He was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had...already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him." Johnson corked the bottle — he was himself, at the moment, a temperance...
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Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography

Washington Irving - 1849 - 406 pages
...and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that bis landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he...perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm,...
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