 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 pages
...him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent,...passion : I perceived that he had already changed my gainea, and had a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 pages
...'hat he had already changed my guinea, and had pot a bottle of Madeira, and a gla&i brfuir ilm I piu the cork Into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him or the m-* fiy which he mUht be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the presa,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English literature - 1872 - 654 pages
...him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went ae soon as I was drcp?ed. and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in aviolertt [tfission. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira... | |
 | John Seely Hart - English literature - 1872 - 650 pages
...und found that lii* biii'lhuly had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in я violent [lassion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottlo of Madeira and u glam In-fore him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would he calm,... | |
 | John Forster - 1873 - 806 pages
...directly. I accordingly went as "soon as I was dressed, and " found that his landlady had ar" rested him for his rent, at "which he was in a violent pas"sion....glass before him. I put "the cork into the bottle, de" sired he would be calm, and "began to talk to him of the " means by which he might be "extricated.*... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pages
...him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which be was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1874 - 446 pages
...him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he wae in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 pages
...him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I waa dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent,...before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired ho would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told... | |
 | Short stories - 1876 - 168 pages
...Johnson sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him shortly. On going to Goldsmith's lodgings, he found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. Johnson perceived that the improvident author had already changed the guinea, and had got a bottle... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, Irish - 1877 - 468 pages
...guinea, and " promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon " as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him " for his...at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived * Aneedates, 119-20. Mrs. Thralo fixes the date of the incident as not later than 1765 or 6; but it... | |
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... a message from poor Goldsmith, that he was in great distress ; and, as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. 
