 | Oliver Goldsmith - Abduction - 1898 - 346 pages
...stopped to take a cursory refreshment. This person was no other than the philanthropic bookseller in St. Paul's Churchyard who has written so many little books for children : he called 15 himself their friend ; but he was the friend of all mankind. He was no sooner alighted but he was... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Abduction - 1900 - 262 pages
...the expenses of my entertainment. It is possible the anxiety from this last circumstance alone in St. Paul's Churchyard who has written so many little books...children : he called himself their friend ; but he 65 was the friend of all mankind. He was no sooner alighted but he was in haste to be gone ; for he... | |
 | Charles James Longman - English periodicals - 1901 - 648 pages
...only for permission to quote from the books themselves, but also from his own notes concerning them. many little books for children ; he called himself...their friend, but he was the friend of all mankind.' Poor Goldsmith had reason to sing the praises of the honest publisher, who no doubt helped him over... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Great Britain - 1902 - 560 pages
...stopped to take a cursory refreshment. This person was no other than the philanthropic bookseller in St. Paul's Churchyard, who has written so many little...in haste to be gone, for he was ever on business of 76 the utmost importance, and was at that time actually compiling materials for the history of one... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1903 - 368 pages
...Churchyard, who is warmly eulogised by the author in the eighteenth chapter of this very work, as having " written so many little books for children ; he called...their friend, but he was the friend of all mankind.'" The publisher had secured a prize in the great lottery of literature, and the author, though in sooth... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1903 - 336 pages
...other0 than the philanthropic bookseller in St. Paul's Churchyard, who has written so many little'books for children; he called himself their friend ; but he was the friend of all mankind. He was no ri sooner alighted but he was in haste to be gone ; for he was ever on business of importance, and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Abduction - 1904 - 328 pages
...stopped to take a cursory refreshment. This person was no other than the philanthropic bookseller in St. Paul's Churchyard who has written so many little books for children : he called 15 himself their friend ; but he was the friend of all mankind. He was no sooner alighted but he was... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1902 - 428 pages
...stopped to take a cursory refreshment. This person was no other than the philanthropic bookseller in St. Paul's Churchyard, who has written so many little...for children. He called himself their friend; but lie was the friend of all mankind. He was no sooner alighted, but he was in haste to be gone, for he... | |
 | Richard Ashe King - Authors, English - 1910 - 370 pages
...inexplicable compliment to that worthy:—" The person was no other than the philanthropic bookseller in St Paul's Churchyard, who has written so many little...their friend, but he was the friend of all mankind." I should rather have identified him with the philanthropist immortalised in An Elegy on the Death of... | |
 | Rosalie Vrylina Halsey - Children - 1911 - 316 pages
...characterization of the bookseller as a good-natured man with red, pimpled face, "who was no sooner alighted than he was in haste to be gone, for he was ever on business of the utmost importance, and he was at that time actually compiling materials for the history of Mr. Thomas Trip." * With such an... | |
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This person was no other than the philanthropic bookseller in St. Paul's Churchyard, who has written so many little books for children : he called himself their friend; but he was the friend of all mankind. He was no sooner alighted, but he was in haste... 
