 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
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 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.* "Pray," said I, "let us have Dr. Johnson." "What, with Mr.... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 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.* "Pray," said I, "let us have Dr. Johnson." "What, with Mr.... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 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 15.1 "Pray," said I, "let us have Dr. Johnson." "What, with Mr.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1912 - 106 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...never forgive me." "Come (said I), if you'll let me negotiate for you, I will be answerable that all shall go well." Dilly: "Nay, if you will take it upon... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1914 - 606 pages
...Dillys — the big house in the Poultry — "at whose hospitable and wellcovered table," says Boswell, "I have seen a greater number of literary men, than...at any other, except that of Sir Joshua Reynolds." Thomas Cadell, too, the successor of Andrew Millar, celebrated the completion of Gibbon's Decline and... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1914 - 552 pages
...— the big house in the Poultry — 'at whose hospitable and well-covered table,' says Boawell, ' I have seen a greater number of literary men, than...at any other, except that of Sir Joshua Reynolds.' Thomas Gadell, too, the successor of Andrew Millar, celebrated the completion of Gibbon's Decline and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 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,...forgive me." — "Come, (said I,) if you'll let me negotiate for you, I will be answerable that all shall go well." DII.LY. Nay, if you will take it upon... | |
 | James Boswell - 1917 - 612 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,...forgive me.' — 'Come, (said I,) if you'll let me negotiate for you, I will be answerable that all shall go well.' DILLY. 'Nay, if you will take it upon... | |
 | charles grosvenor osgood - 1917 - 606 pages
...Wilkes and some more gentlemen on Wednesday, May 15. 'Pray (said I,) let us have Dr. Johnson.'—'What with Mr. Wilkes? not for the world, (said Mr. Edward Dilly:) Dr. Johnson would never forgive me.'—'Come, (said I,) if you'll let me negociate for you, I will be answerable that all shall go... | |
 | James Boswell - 1923 - 372 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...never forgive me." "Come, (said I,) if you'll let me negotiate for you, I will be answerable that all shall go well." DILLY. "Nay, if you will take it upon... | |
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