 My worthy booksellers and friends, Messieurs Dilly in the Poultry, at whose hospitable and well-covered table I have seen a greater number of literary men, than at any other, except that of Sir Joshua Reynolds, had invited me to meet Mr. Wilkes and some...  The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 66by James Boswell - 1820Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 586 pages
...worthy booksellers and friends, Messieurs Dilly in the Poultry, at whose hospitable and well-covered table I have seen a greater number of literary men...more gentlemen on Wednesday, May 15. " Pray," said J, " let us have Dr. Johnson." " What, with Mr. Wilkes? not for the world," said Mr. Edward Dilly :... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
...worthy booksellers and friends, Messieurs Dilly in the Poultry, at whose hospitable and wellcovered table I have seen a greater number of literary men...Johnson would never forgive me." " Come," said I, " if you '11 let me negotiate for you, I will be answerable that all shall go well." DILLY. " Nay, if you... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 590 pages
...friends, Messieurs Dilly in the Poultry, at whose hospitable and well-covered table I have seen a greats-r number of literary men than at any other, except that...Dilly: " Dr. Johnson would never forgive me." " Come," *aid I, " if you 'II let me negotiate for you, I will be answerable that all shall go well." DILLY.... | |
 | 1839 - 444 pages
...booksellers and friends," says he," Messrs. Dilly in the Poultry, at whose hospitable and well-covered table I have seen a greater number of literary men...Wilkes and some more gentlemen, on Wednesday May 15 [ 1776]. ' Pray,' said I, 'let us have Dr. Johnson.' ' V'hat! with Mr. Wilkes? not for the world!'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 pages
...worthy booksellers and friends, Messieurs Dilly in the Poultry, at whose hospitable and well-covered table I have seen a greater number of literary men...gentlemen on Wednesday, May 15. "Pray," said I, "let us h»ve Dr. Johnson." "What, with Mr. Wilkes? not for the world," said Mr. Edward Dilly: " Dr. Johnson... | |
 | James Boswell - 1844 - 370 pages
...worthy booksellers and friends, Messieurs Dilly in the Poultry, at whose hospitable and wellcovered table I have seen a greater number of literary men...Johnson would never forgive me." " Come," said I, " if you '11 let me negotiate for you, I will be answerable that all shall go well." DILLY. " Nay, if you... | |
 | Charles Knight - Booksellers and bookselling - 1865 - 366 pages
...out by Edward and Charles Dilly. Boswell is ever full of " my worthy booksellers and friends, Messrs. Dilly, in the Poultry, at whose hospitable and well...at any other, except that of Sir Joshua Reynolds." Their parties included men of all creeds, political and religious. They were Nonconformists; but in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...worthy booksellers and friends, Messieurs Duly in the Poultry, at whose hospitable and well-covered table I have seen a greater number of literary men than at any Bother, except that of Sir Joshua Keynolds, had invited me to meet Mr. Wilkes and some other gentlemen,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...worthy booksellers and friends, Messieurs Dillys in the Poultry, at whose hospitable and well-covered table I have seen a greater number of literary men...forgive me." — " Come, (said I,) if you'll let me rjegociate for you, I will be answerable that all shall go well." DILLY. " Nay, if you will take it... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...worthy booksellers and friends, Messieurs Dilly in the Poultry, at whose hospitable and well-covered table I have seen a greater number of literary men,...Reynolds, had invited me to meet Mr. Wilkes and some other gentlemen, on Wednesday, May 15 (1776). 'Pray,' said I, 'let us have Dr. Johnson.'—'What, with... | |
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