 | Washington Irving - 1870 - 644 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,...had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in ;>. violent passion : I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had a bottle of Madeira... | |
 | J. Heneage Jesse - 1871 - 508 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1871 - 248 pages
...possible. I sent 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...was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had changed my guinea, and had a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Conduct of life - 1910 - 502 pages
...him a guinea, and promised to come immediately, which he did. But Goldsmith had already changed the guinea, and " had a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him" when he arrived. Johnson put the cork into the bottle, and asked Goldsmith how he proposed to pay the... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Abduction - 1911 - 236 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 Henry Craik - English literature - 1911 - 664 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...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 Harold Herbert Williams - English fiction - 1911 - 364 pages
...from Goldsmith that he was in trouble. Johnson sent down a guinea, and promised to follow the coin. " I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found...his rent ; at which he was in a violent passion." In recognition of his friend's liberality Goldsmith had already spent part of Dr. Johnson's guinea,... | |
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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. 
