 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 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." His Ofellus in the Art of Living in London, I have heard him relate, was an Irish painter whom he knew... | |
 | Sydney Castle Roberts - 1919 - 210 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.'" Johnson was, as Boswell says, "an ad venturer in literature." What kind of place was this London of 17^7, this... | |
 | 1923 - 142 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." . . . was enough to enable a man to live there without being contemptible. He allowed ten pounds for... | |
 | James Boswell - 1923 - 372 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 returned to Lichfield in the summer and finished his tragedy Irene, which was not acted until 1749.... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1180 pages
...cut of meat for six-pence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny; so that I was quite 1925 The Century Co."9 McClelland George Wi He at this time, I believe, abstained entirely from fermented liquors: a practice to which he rigidly... | |
 | Clara Elizabeth Laughlin - 1926 - 652 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.' It was while he was lodging here, and working for the Gentlemen's Magazine, that an Irish painter told... | |
 | 1890 - 774 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." At the "King's Head"— "a famous beef-steak house," in Ivy Lane, he founded one of his clubs ; while... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 544 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." * One curious anecdote was communicated by himself to Mr. John Nichols. Mr. Wilcox, the bookseller,... | |
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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;... 
