 | James Boswell - 1917 - 574 pages
...bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, 1763l WITH GOLDSMITH AND JOHNSON 107 and he discharged his rent, not without rating his...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill.' My next meeting with Johnson was on Friday the 1st of July, when he and I and Dr. Goldsmith supped... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 512 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. I brought Goldsmith the money, and 100 he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1917 - 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. I brought Goldsmith the money, 1763] WITH GOLDSMITH AND JOHNSON 107 and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in... | |
 | Alfred Edward Newton - 1918 - 373 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 ... and Sir," continued Johnson, "it was a sufficient price, too, when it was sold; for then the fame... | |
 | James Boswell - 1923 - 343 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." Borwett Is Impregnated with the Johnsonian /iEther — My next meeting with Johnson was on Friday the... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1923 - 1136 pages
...merit; 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...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill. It was Goldsmith's employer, John Newbery, of St. Paul's Churchyard, who bought the Vicar. But he did... | |
 | Alban Bertram De Mille - 1924 - 479 pages
...its merit; 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...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." The price received seems absurdly inadequate; but we must remember that the author was as yet known... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1144 pages
...he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit; told the landlady I should soon return, and e disturbing elements in the social problem a rc n..._thg__rnnstant nnpn- they_ alter the essence of the_creature fff 1 rprntnmpnHprl in i^a tr. fcpgp a jouEnal_of_jny life, full and unreserved. He said it woukTbe... | |
 | Clara Elizabeth Laughlin - 1926 - 571 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.' After which, I'm sure, he returned to the Madeira. The novel which thus 'extricated' him was 'The Vicar... | |
 | Hugh Alexander Law - 1926 - 301 pages
...merit ; 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...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." The manuscript was that of The Vicar of Wakefield. But the bookseller, though he had bought it to oblige... | |
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... 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.... 
