 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...a cut of meat for sixpence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny; so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing1." He at this time, I believe, abstained entirely from fermented liquors: a practice to which... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 488 pages
...a cut of meat for sixpence and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny, so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing.'" "Painful as it is to relate," says Cumberland, " I have heard Dr. Johnson assert, that he subsisted... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...a cut of meat for sixpence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny; so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." 3 He at this time, I believe, abstained entirely from fermented liquors : a practice to which he rigidly... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 pages
...cut of meat for sixpence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny ; so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." While at Birmingham, he had become somewhat acquainted with an Irish painter, whom he described as... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 pages
...cut of meat for sixpence, and bread for . a penny, and gave the waiter n penny ; so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing."' He at this time, I believe, abstained entirely from fermented liquors : a practice to which he rigidly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...a cut of meat for sixpence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny; so that I was quite Bishop Lowth.—CEOICER. i " SIR,— That the Medicinal Dictionary Is dedi 3 Considering Johnson's narrow circumstances in the early part of his life, and particularly at the... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1864 - 302 pages
...cut of meat for sixpence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny ; so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." Johnson's life just then was a cold and comfortless one, but he had a friend in a Mr. Hervey, of whom... | |
 | 1865 - 792 pages
...had a out of meat for Gdf, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny : so that I was quite well served, nay better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing.' Bo»well adds, 'He at this time (17J7), I believe, abstained entirely from fermented liquor»: a practice... | |
 | Jacob Larwood, John Camden Hotten - 1866 - 616 pages
...cut of meat for sixpence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny ; so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." The pine-apple was first known at the discovery of America, and was preserved in sugar as early as... | |
 | John Forster - 1873 - 806 pages
...of meat for six"pence, and bread for a penny, and "gave the waiter a penny ; so that I was " quite well served , nay, better than the " rest , for they gave the waiter nothing.*' Boswetl, i. 113.) But then no fasting days appear in Ofellus's bill of fare , and at that period of... | |
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Several of them had travelled. They expected to meet every day ; but did not know one another's names. It used to cost the rest a shilling, for they drank wine ; but I had a cut of meat for six-pence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny;... 
