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 Literary Landmarks of London - Էջ 116Laurence Hutton - 1892 - 367 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 414 էջ
...world the name of its author, had been silently accomplished. " One day," says Johnson, " I received a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great...distress, and, as it was not in his power to come to mo, begging I would come to him directly." The scene is well known : the arrest by the landlady ; the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1877 - 526 էջ
...enchanting story. We give Johnson's own account of how he became the literary sponsor of " Dr. Primrose." "I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith...to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised him to come directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was... | |
| Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 էջ
...not, it was better he did not talk."—Boswell. GOLDSMITH AND THE " VICAR OF WAKEFIELD."—Johnson: "I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith...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 went as soon as... | |
| Washington Irving - 1879 - 266 էջ
...difficulties into which his heedlessnesa was continually plunging him. "I received one morning," says Johnson, "a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great...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 went as soon as... | |
| George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 էջ
...from Johnson's own exact narration. 'I received one morning,' Boswell represents Johnson to have said, 'a message from poor Goldsmith, that he was in great...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 went as soon as... | |
| 1881 - 794 էջ
...accuracy may bo trusted : '"I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith,' says Johnson, ' that he was in great distress, and, as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would oome to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to coma to him directly. I accordingly... | |
| Elsie M. Lang - 1907 - 424 էջ
...booksellers, and here it was that he wrote "The Vicar of Wakefield," with regard to which Dr Johnson writes: " I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith...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 went to him as soon... | |
| Washington Irving - 1907 - 472 էջ
...into which his heedlessness was continually plunging him. " I received one morning," says Johnson, " a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great...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 went as soon as... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1907 - 568 էջ
...Life of Johnson, eighth edit., 8yo. 1816, vol. iv. p. 27. ' I received one morning', said Johnson,' a message from poor Goldsmith, that he was in great...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 went to him as soon... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 572 էջ
...interference, when this novel was sold. I shall give it authentically from Johnson's own exact narration : "I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith...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 went as soon as... | |
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