 | 1953 - 328 páginas
...for clothes and linen. You may live in a garret at eighteen pence a week ; few people will inquire where you lodge; and if they do, it is easy to say,...On clean-shirt day you go abroad and pay visits." As a young man Dr Johnson went to Oxford University, Aii arcade of shops in an eightcentlicentury town.... | |
 | 1904 - 314 páginas
...garret at eighteen-pence a week ; few people would inquire where he lodged, and if they did it was easy to say, " Sir, I am to be found at such a place." By spending threepence in a coffee-house he might be for some hours every day in very good company ; he might dine for sixpence, breakfast on... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 1106 páginas
...garret at eighteenpence a week : few pcople would inquire where he lodged ; and if they did, it was easy to say, 'Sir, I am to be found at such a place.' By spending threepence in a coffee-house, he might be for some hours every day in very good company ; he might dine for sixpence, breakfast on... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 544 páginas
...in a garret at eighteen-pence a week; few people would inquire where he lodged ; if they did it was easy to say, 'Sir, I am to be found at such a place.' By spending threepence at a coffee-house, he might be for some hours every day in 'very good company ; he might dine for sixpence,... | |
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By spending threepence in a coffeehouse, he might be for some hours every day in very good company ; he might dine for sixpence, breakfast on bread and milk for a penny, and do without supper. On clean-shirt-day he went abroad, and paid visits. 
