 ... him of the means by 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...  Boswell's Life of Johnson - Stran 107avtor: James Boswell - 1917 - 574 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 strani
...soon return; and having gone to a bookseller sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so Ш." Mr. Newberry was the person with whom Johnson thus bargained for the "Vicar of Wakefield." The... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 656 strani
...return, and, having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." Newberry, the purchaser of the Vicar of Wakefield, best known to the present generation by recollection... | |
 | 1850 - 642 strani
...return ; and, having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." The novel was the " Vicar of Wakefield," and the bookseller to whom it was sold was Mr. Francis Newbury.... | |
 | People - 1845 - 348 strani
...return, and, having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." Cumberland has added to this anecdote a piece of romance — related afterwards, perhaps as a jest,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 strani
...soon return; and having gone to a bookseller sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." Mr. Newberry was the person with whom Johnson thus bargained for the "Vicar of Wakefield." The price... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 strani
...soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill'-." 1 [How Mr. Boswell, who affecis sucli extreme accuracy, should any that Hawkins has strangely mis-stated... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 strani
...soon return, and, having fone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I rought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." Newberry, the purchaser of the Vitar of Wakeßeld, best known to the present generation by recollection... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 strani
...return; and, having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill. — JOHNSON, in Boswell. CANDOUR. — Marivaux, a celebrated French writer of romances, who flourished... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 strani
...soon return; and having gone to a bookseller sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." Mr. Newberry was the person with whom Johnson thus bargained for the "Vicar of Wakefield." The price... | |
 | 1852 - 788 strani
...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 his...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." The work in question was no other than the now celebrated "Vicar of Wakefield," which the publisher... | |
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