 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 674 páginas
...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...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." The novel in question was the ' Vicar of Wakefield : ' the bookseller to whom Johnson sold it was Francis... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 1254 páginas
...might be extricated. He then told me he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady...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,... | |
 | 1853 - 444 páginas
...might be extricated. He then told me he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady...return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixtypounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 348 páginas
...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...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill."* Mr Newbery, the bookseller here alluded to, had such faint expectations from his purchase, that he... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1854 - 396 páginas
...then told me he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it and £a\v its merit; told the landlady I should soon return;...landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." The novel in question was the " Vicar of Wak^field :" the bookseller to whom Johnson sold it was Francis... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 642 páginas
...extricated.t 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...Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not * Anecdotes, 119-20. Mrs. Thrale fixes the date of the incident as not later than 1765 or 6 ; but it... | |
 | 1883 - 846 páginas
...he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merits, told the landlady I should soon return ; and having...for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and discharged his lent, not without rating his landlady in. a high tone for having used him so ill.' Not... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 614 páginas
...might be extricated. He then told me 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 hookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1854 - 292 páginas
...for the press, which he produced to me. 1 j looked into it, and saw its merit; told the landlady T should \ soon return, and having gone to a bookseller,...sold it for sixty (' pounds. I brought Goldsmith the riioney, and he discharged ) his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for ^> having... | |
 | John Forster - 1855 - 528 páginas
...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...a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Gold' ' smith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating " his landlady in a high tone... | |
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I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to 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... 
