 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...cut of meat for sixpence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny ; so that I was quite the house is anxious to entertain his guests — the guests arc anxious He at this time, I believe, abstained entirely from fermented liquors: a practice to which he rigidly... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 640 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." Murphy relates that at a dinner at Foote's at which he was present, reference having been made to an... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 646 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."—Boswell, by Croker, vol. ip 73. In Charles II.'s reign New Street was very fashionably... | |
 | Mrs. Annie Adams Fields - 1894 - 238 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 dwell... | |
 | Annie Fields - 1895 - 242 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 dwell... | |
 | H. G. Somerville - 1896 - 244 pages
...for they drank wine; but I had a cut of meat for sixpence, and bread for a penny, so that I was quite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." Johnson used to relate of an Irish painter, that he, the painter, practically realised a theory that £30 a... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 512 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.' Ib. i. 103. In a marginal note Leigh Hunt says : — ' Lord Byron, in repeating this story, of which... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1899 - 426 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.' At the sign of ' The Cricket Bat ' in Duke's Court, was one of the toy-shops where Boydell was in the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pages
...cut of meat for sixpence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny ; so that I was quite q" He at this time, I believe, abstained entirely from fermented liquors : a practice to which he rigidly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 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... | |
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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;... 
