| Oliver Goldsmith - 1928 - 352 pages
...appeared. Then, to be sure, it was accidentally worth more money.' " Mrs. Piozzi and Sir John Hawkins have strangely mis-stated the history of Goldsmith's...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... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - 1928 - 398 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 half a bottle of Madeira 294 and a glass before him. I put the cork in the bottle, desired he would... | |
| James Boswell - 1998 - 1540 pages
...appeared. Then, to be sure, it was accidentally worth more money.' Mrs. Piozzi1 and Sir John Hawkins1 have strangely mis-stated the history of Goldsmith's...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... | |
| Harold Love - 2002 - 284 pages
...and biographies. Consider Samuel Johnson's story of the sale of Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield: I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith...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... | |
| Carl Edmund Rollyson - 2005 - 321 pages
...interference, when this novel was sold. I shall give it authentically from Johnson's own exact narration: [55] "I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith...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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