 I returned home almost in desperation. When I opened the door of my study, where Lavater alone could have found a library, the first object which presented itself was an immense folio of a brief, twenty golden guineas wrapped up beside it, and the name...  La Belle Assemblée - Page 3191818Full view - About this book
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 528 pages
...vu. 2 л almost in desperation. When I opened the door of my study — where Lavater alone could have found a library — the first object which presented...it, and the name of old Bob Lyons marked upon the • oack of it, and that dinner was the date of my prosperity." Such was '-is own account of his professional... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...returned home almost in desperation. When I opened the door of my study, where Lavater alone could have found a library, the first object which presented...the back of it. I paid my landlady, bought a good dinner, gave Bob Lyons a share of it; and -that dinner was the date of my prosperity !" 1. Whose death... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1850 - 534 pages
...returned home almost in desperation. When I opened the door of my study, where Lavater alone could have found a library, the first object which presented...the back of it. I paid my landlady — bought a good dinner — gave Bob Lyons a share of it — and that dinner was the date of my prosperity." Such was... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1850 - 520 pages
...returned home almost in desperation. When I opened the door of my study, where Lavater alone could have found a library, the first object which presented...Old Bob Lyons marked upon the back of it. I paid my landlady—bought a good dinner—gave Bob Lyons a share of it—and that dinner was the date of my... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1851 - 854 pages
...returned home almost in desperation. When I opened the door of my study, where Lavater alone could have found a library, the first object which presented...the back of it. I paid my landlady — bought a good dinner — gave Bob Lyoes a share of it — and that dinner was the date of my prosperity." Such was... | |
 | Mrs. Warren (Eliza) - 1751 - 206 pages
...opened the door of my study, where Lavater alone could have found a library, the first object that presented itself was an immense folio of a brief,...the back of it. I paid my landlady, bought a good dinner, gave Bob Lyons a share of it, and that dinner was the date of my prosperity.— Curran and... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1851 - 464 pages
...returned home almost in desperation. When I opened the door of my study, where Lavater alone could have found a library, the first object which presented...guineas wrapped up beside it, and the name of Old Bob I/yons marked upon the back of it. I paid my landlady—bought a good dinner—gave Bob Lyons a share... | |
 | 1851 - 782 pages
...breakfast, an unexpected but welcome visitor presented itself on his return ; a large brief, " with twenty golden guineas wrapped up beside it, and the...name of old Bob Lyons marked upon the back of it." This good Inck at once established his respectability in the eyes of his landlady, who must have had,... | |
 | 1852 - 880 pages
...returned home almost in desperation. When I opened the door of my study, where Lavatcr alone could have found a library, the first object which presented...the back of it. I paid my landlady — bought a good dinner — gave Bob Lyors a share of it — and that dinner was the date of my prosperity." Such was... | |
 | 1857 - 592 pages
...came home almost in desperation. When I opened the door of my study, where Lavatcr alone could have found a library, the first object which presented itself was an immense folio of a brief, twenty gold guineas wrapped up beside it, and the name of old Bob Lyons marked upon the back of it. I paid... | |
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