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" Several of them had travelled. They expected to meet every day ; but did not know one another's names. It used to cost the rest a shilling, for they drank wine ; but I had a cut of meat for six-pence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny;... "
The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events. St. Paul's to St. James's - Page 250
by Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 312 pages
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Literary Landmarks of London

Laurence Hutton - 1885 - 384 pages
...cut of meat for sixpence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny ; BO that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing.' New Street runs from St. Martin's Lane to the junction of King and Bedford Streets, but no Pine Apple...
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Life of Samuel Johnson

Francis Richard Charles Grant - 1887 - 216 pages
...them had travelled. They expected to meet every day, but we did not know each other's names. It used to cost the rest a shilling, for they drank wine ;...than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." He had previously learned, from an Irish painter, whom he had known at Birmingham, the art of " living...
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Scribner's Magazine ..., Volume 16

1894 - 962 pages
...speaking of his first London lodgings and says, "It used to cost the rest a shilling for their dinner, for they drank wine ; but I had a cut of meat for...than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." " Lord Byron," says Leigh Hunt in a note, " in repeating this story, of which he was fond, used to...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1887 - 576 pages
...cut of meat for six-pence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny ; so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing2.' He at this time, I believe, abstained entirely from fermented. liquors: a practice to which...
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Literary Landmarks of London

Laurence Hutton - 1888 - 392 pages
...cut of meat for sixpence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny ; so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing.' New Street runs from St. Martin's Lane to the junction of King and Bedford Streets, but no Pine Apple...
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The Antiquary, Volume 17

1888 - 324 pages
...cut of meat for sixpence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny ; so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing" (i. B., i. 113). Cumberland says it is painful to know that Johnson subsisted on fourpence halfpenny...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1888 - 608 pages
...cut of meat for six-pence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny ; so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." He at this time, I believe, abstained entirely from fermented liquors ; a practice to which he rigidly...
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The Antiquary: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past, Volume 17

Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson - 1888 - 306 pages
...cut of meat for sixpence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny ; so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing" (i. B., i. 113). Cumberland says it is painful to know that Johnson subsisted on fourpence halfpenny...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1889 - 566 pages
...cut of meat for sixpence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny ; so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest for they gave the waiter nothing.'" He at this time, I believe, abstained entirely from fermented liquors : a practice to which he rigidly...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with The Journal of a ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1889 - 574 pages
...cut of meat for sixpence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny ; so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest for they gave the waiter nothing." 1 He at this time, I believe, abstained entirely from fermented liquors : a practice to which he rigidly...
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