 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 527 pages
...sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, o, no science with which he was unacquainted, none...none which he did not leave better than he found it. a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm,... | |
 | James Boswell, John Wilson Croker - Authors, English - 1848 - 874 pages
...sent 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...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 calm, and began... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 704 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...already changed my ' guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass 310 ' before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he ' would be calm, and... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848
...sent 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...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 calm, and began... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1848 - 704 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...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 calm, and began... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1848
...and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and VOL. III. Q found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent,...that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a hottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would he calm,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 312 pages
...a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went to him as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his...perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, * Boswell'a Life of Johnson,... | |
 | 1848
...directly. 1 accordingly went to him as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had alrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion....perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired that he would... | |
 | 1848
...which, when finished, was to be his whole fortune." Johnson, speaking in Boswell's " Life," says : — " He was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had...already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him." Johnson corked the bottle — he was himself, at the moment, a temperance... | |
 | Washington Irving - Authors, Irish - 1849 - 382 pages
...and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that bis landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he...perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm,... | |
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I was drest, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I 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... 
