 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...cut 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." He at this time, I believe, abstained entirely from fermented liquors ; a practice to which he rigidly... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 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." what he used to say of his bounteous host: " If you call a dog Hcn'cy, I shall love him." In the course... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 480 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." But there was at least one gentleman's table at which he was privileged to fare much better than at... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 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." In the course of the summer he returned to Lichfield for three months, where he finished his tragedy... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 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."— Boswett. INCOME IN YOUTH.—Painful as it is to relate, I have heard Dr. Johnson assert that he subsisted... | |
 | Frederick Sherlock - 1881 - 306 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." Penniless, patronless, and not prepossessing, Johnson commenced the career of a literary drudge. By... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 pages
...may be judged from his own words: "I dined very well for eight-pence, with very good company. It used to cost the rest a shilling, for they drank wine;...than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." His tragedy of Irene was offered at Drury Lane theatre and rejected. Johnson from that time became... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 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." How Johnson employed himself upon his first coming to London is not particularly known. A curious anecdote... | |
 | Rough diamond - 1884 - 390 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." He likewise greatly appreciated the advice of a frugal friend, who assured him that thirty pounds a... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - 1885 - 384 pages
...cut of meat for sixpence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny ; BO that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing.' New Street runs from St. Martin's Lane to the junction of King and Bedford Streets, but no Pine Apple... | |
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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;... 
