 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...lilui as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his...his rent; at which he was in a violent passion. I per* celved that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira, and a glass before... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - Authors, English - 1861 - 406 pages
...Johnson says : " I sent him (Goldsmith) a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 410 pages
...Johnson says : " I sent him (Goldsmith) a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before... | |
 | James Whiteside - Authors, English - 1862 - 100 pages
...sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him " directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was drest, and found " that his landlady had arrested him for...glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, and desired " he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by " which he might be extricated.... | |
 | John Timbs - Humorists, English - 1862 - 422 pages
...to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his...perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm,... | |
 | 1863 - 494 pages
...come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his...perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1863 - 972 pages
...come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his...perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and bad a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...directly. I accordingly went as Boon as I waa dressed, and found that hU landlady hod arrested him for hia rent; at which he was In a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had pot a bolUc of Madeira, and a glass before aim. I put the cork into the botUe, desired he would be... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 464 pages
...to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his...perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm,... | |
 | James Beattie, Oliver Goldsmith - Gift books - 1864 - 540 pages
...to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his...was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had changed my guinea, and had a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle,... | |
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I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and, as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly... 
