 | Laurence Hutton - 1885 - 414 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.' About this period Johnson began his labors in the establishment of Edward Cave, editor of the ' Gentleman's... | |
 | Francis Richard Charles Grant - 1887 - 216 pages
...them had travelled. They expected to meet every day, but we did not know each other's names. It used to cost the rest a shilling, for they drank wine ;...than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." He had previously learned, from an Irish painter, whom he had known at Birmingham, the art of " living... | |
 | 1894 - 962 pages
...speaking of his first London lodgings and says, "It used to cost the rest a shilling for their dinner, for they drank wine ; but I had a cut of meat for...than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." " Lord Byron," says Leigh Hunt in a note, " in repeating this story, of which he was fond, used to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 576 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 nothing2.' He at this time, I believe, abstained entirely from fermented. liquors: a practice to which... | |
 | James Boswell - 1888 - 608 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... | |
 | Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson - 1888 - 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" (i. B., i. 113). Cumberland says it is painful to know that Johnson subsisted on fourpence halfpenny... | |
 | 1888 - 324 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" (i. B., i. 113). Cumberland says it is painful to know that Johnson subsisted on fourpence halfpenny... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - 1888 - 392 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.' New Street runs from St. Martin's Lane to the junction of King and Bedford Streets, but no Pine Apple... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 566 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.'" He at this time, I believe, abstained entirely from fermented liquors : a practice to which he rigidly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 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." 1 He at this time, I believe, abstained entirely from fermented liquors : a practice to which he rigidly... | |
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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;... 
