 | Austin Dobson - 1901 - 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." In May's Buildings (where in later years the club called The Eccentrics held its sittings) there flourished,... | |
 | Austin Brereton - 1903 - 384 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." Between Exeter Street and the Strand were two narrow passages, containing slum dwellings, called Exchange... | |
 | 1905 - 870 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." 3 This was when he occupied his first lodgings in London at a stay-maker's in Exeter Street, close... | |
 | J. Holden Macmichael - 1906 - 398 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." * This was when he occupied his first lodgings in London at a stay-maker's in Exeter Street, close... | |
 | 1896 - 728 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." BOSWELL. • Johnson loved bis dinner exceedingly, and has often said in my hearing, perhaps for my... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1907 - 566 pages
...of his information is a curious and interesting specimen of his disposition. ' It used ', he said, ' to cost the rest a shilling, for they drank wine :...and of whom he gave this account. ' Thirty pounds a year ', according to this economical philosopher, ' was enough to enable a man to live there without... | |
 | Hanslip Fletcher - 1908 - 270 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." RI 214 ' «« ' « « VH BOW STREET AND RUSSELL STREET HPHE old building in our illustration which... | |
 | 1913 - 786 pages
...they drank wine; but I had a cut of meat for 6d. and bread for id. and gave the waiter id. I was quite well served — nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." For the work of seven years on the Dictionary he received 1,500 guineas, and out of this had his assistants... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - 1914 - 462 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." But before his affairs grew better, they grew worse. From scraps of conversation with his friends in... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - 1914 - 488 pages
...get much information on this period. Johnson himself has told us a little of his manner of living: of meat for sixpence, and bread for a penny, and gave...than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." But before his affairs grew better, they grew worse. From scraps of conversation with his friends in... | |
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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;... 
