 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the...He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit; told the landlady I should soon... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 pages
...guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the...He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass before him: I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the...He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit; told the landlady I should soon... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pages
...guinea, and had a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired . I can not pass over one of a later date made him by a German divine. Luitprandut nunquam LAtit I told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw... | |
 | 1852 - 788 pages
...Madeira and a t;lass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and bpgan to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. lie then told me he had a work ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...guinea, and got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired that he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the...He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit, told the landlady 1 should soon... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 734 pages
...and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass 310 ' before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he ' would be calm, and began to talk to him of the...He then told me that ' he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to ' me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the land' lady I should... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 328 pages
...cork into the bottle, * Boswell's Life of Johnson, eighth edit., 8vo. 1816, vol. iv. p. 27. desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the...He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...guinea, and had got a bottle of madeira and a glass ' before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he ' would be calm, and began to talk to him of the...He then told me that ' he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to ' me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the land' lady I should... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pages
...guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the...He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit; told the landlady I should soon... | |
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I was dressed and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. 
