 ... 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 for sixty pounds....  Vicar of Wakefield - Page ixby Oliver Goldsmith - 1766Full view - About this book
 | People - 1845 - 348 pages
...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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...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."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...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... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1852 - 788 pages
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 pages
...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... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 744 pages
...gone to a book' seller, 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.' Nor does the rating seem altogether undeserved, since there cannot be a doubt that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the monev, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill." * , who affects such extreme accuracy, should say that Hawkins has ttrangely nris-ttaft'rt... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...gone to a book' seller, 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.' Nor does the rating seem altogether undeserved, since there cannot be a doubt that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pages
...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) It may not be improper to annex here Mrs. Piozzi's account of this transaction,... | |
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