 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pages
...sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was drest, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was 1 I am willing to hope that there may have been some mistake as to this anecdote, though I had it from... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 pages
...begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed,...perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got. a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottJe, desired he would be... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 508 pages
...to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I according!/ went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his...perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle. desired he would be... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him yself in my time, part of my bed* clothes arc heartily at your service." ing such humanity in n jail, got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed,...perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - 454 pages
...Cloyne, in 1747. * Anecdotes of Johnson, p. 119. 6 Life of Johnson, p. 4:20. went as soon as I was drest, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his...perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be... | |
 | 1825 - 610 pages
...begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed,...perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Novelists, English - 1825 - 554 pages
...begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed,...perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 440 pages
...begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed,...perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1827 - 622 pages
...sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was drest, e sends a work from the press, ought to be on his...error and mistaken enthusiasm of the people among w cnanged my guinea, and hcd got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I pul the cork into the... | |
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I received one morning 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. 
