 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1886 - 340 pages
...backparlour. "What do you think of Garrick ?" said Johnson to the retired actor and worthy bookseller. " He has refused me an order for the play for Miss Williams,...he knows the house will be full, and that an order would be worth three shillings." "Oh, sir," says Boswell, eager to enter into conversation with the... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1886 - 392 pages
...Garrick ?" said Johnson to the retired actor and worthy bookseller. " He r I 1o JOHNSON AND- GARRICK. has refused me an order for the play for Miss Williams,...he knows the house will be full, and that an order would be worth three shillings." "Oh, sir," says Boswell, eager to enter into conversation with the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 598 pages
...great many of your countrymen cannot help.' This stroke stunned me a good deal ; and when we had sat down, I felt myself not a little embarrassed, and...he knows the house will be full, and that an order would be worth three shillings.' Eager to take any opening to get into conversation with him, I ventured... | |
 | Francis Richard Charles Grant - 1887 - 216 pages
...encouraging, but the future biographer soon laid himself open to a more angry retort. " He (Johnson) then addressed himself to Davies : ' What do you think...he knows the house will be full, and that an order would be worth three shillings ! ' Eager to take any opening to get into conversation with him, I ventured... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - 1879 - 604 pages
...a good many of your country cannot help.' This stroke stunned me a good deal ; and when we had sat down I felt myself not a little embarrassed, and apprehensive of what might come next." In the " Literary Memoirs " of Mr. Cradock, who often met Johnson, Boswell, and Foote here, we find... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 pages
...great many of your countrymen cannot help." This stroke stunned me a good deal ; and when we had sat down, I felt myself not a little embarrassed, and...he knows the house will be full, and that an order would be worth three shillings." Eager to take any opening to get into conversation with him, I ventured... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 pages
...great many of your countrymen cannot help." This stroke stunned me a good deal ; and when we had sat down, I felt myself not a little embarrassed, and...he knows the house will be full, and that an order would be worth three shillings." Eager to take any opening to get into conversation with him, I ventured... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...mentioned,— MALONE. BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON. 97 we had sat down, I felt myself not a little emba: rassed, and apprehensive of what might come next. He then...he knows the house will be full, and that an order would be worth three shillings." Eager to take any opening to get into conversation with him, I ventured... | |
 | Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1890 - 516 pages
...great many of your countrymen cannot help." This stroke stunned me a good deal; and, when we had sat down, I felt myself not a little embarrassed, and...what might come next. He then addressed himself to Davies:io " What do you think of Garrick ? He has refused me an order for the play for Miss Williams,... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1891 - 376 pages
...great many of your countrymen cannot help.' This stroke stunned me a good deal ; and when we had sat down, I felt myself not a little embarrassed, and...? He has refused me an order for the play for Miss AVilliams.' Eager to * " No. 8," says Boswell unaffectedly, " the very place where I was fortunate... | |
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What do you think of Garrick? He has refused me an order for the play for Miss Williams, because he knows the house will be full, and that an order would be worth three shillings. 
