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... Shadows of the Old Booksellers - Page 215by Charles Knight - 1865 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1895 - 236 pages
...refreshment. This person was no other than the philanthropic bookseller in St. Paul's Church-yard,1 who has written so many little books for children: he called...friend; but he was the friend of all mankind. He was no 1 John Newberry, who was a good friend to Goldsmith. It is conjectured with much probability that Goldsmith... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1896 - 320 pages
...refreshment. 15 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...alighted, but he was in haste to be gone ; for he 20 was ever on business of the utmost importance, and was at that time actually compiling materials... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1896 - 318 pages
...refreshment. 15 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...alighted, but he was in haste to be gone ; for he 20 was ever on business of the utmost importance, and was at that time actually compiling materials... | |
| George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 512 pages
...Vicar of Wakefield, ch. xviii, as ' the philanthropic bookseller in St. Paul's Church-yard, who has written so many little books for children : he called...their friend, but he was the friend of all mankind." Johnson at Rochester maintained ' that Jack the Giant-Killer, Parisenus and Parismenus, and The Seven... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1900 - 262 pages
...entertainment. It is possible the anxiety from this last circumstance alone in St. Paul's Churchyard who has written so many little books for 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 - 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 - 1902 - 560 pages
...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...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... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1902 - 428 pages
...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 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... | |
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