 | John Stoughton - 1864 - 302 pagine
...with very good company, at the Pine Apple in New-street, just by. Several of them had travelled. They expected to meet every day, but did not know one another's...than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." Johnson's life just then was a cold and comfortless one, but he had a friend in a Mr. Hervey, of whom... | |
 | Jacob Larwood, John Camden Hotten - 1866 - 616 pagine
...Johuon : London. 1819, p. «. to meet every day, but did not know one another's names. It used to coat the rest a shilling, for they drank wine ; but I had...than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing." The pine-apple was first known at the discovery of America, and was preserved in sugar as early as... | |
 | James Boswell, William Wallace - 1873 - 612 pagine
...company, at the Pine Apple, in New Strcet, just by. Several of them had travelled. They expected to mcet Boswel E* entirely from fermented liquors ; a practice to which he rigidly conformed for many years together,... | |
 | John Forster - 1873 - 806 pagine
...on the whole. It is true that when Johnson first came to London his dinner cost him twopence more. ("I had a cut of meat for six"pence, and bread for...than the " rest , for they gave the waiter nothing.*' Boswetl, i. 113.) But then no fasting days appear in Ofellus's bill of fare , and at that period of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pagine
...with very good company, at the Pine Apple in Newstreet, just by. Several of them had travelled. They expected to meet every day ; but did not know one...waiter nothing." He at this time, I believe, abstained entirely from fermented liquors ; a practice to which he rigidly conformed for many years together,... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 482 pagine
...with very good company, at the Pine-Apple, in New-street, just by. Several of them had travelled. They expected to meet every day ; but did not know one...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... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pagine
...with very good company, at the Pine-Apple, in New-street, just by. Several of them had travelled. They expected to meet every • day; but did not know one...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... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - 272 pagine
...but he practised the most rigid economy. His dinner, each day, cost him eightpence. "I had," said he, "a cut of meat for sixpence, and bread for a penny,...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... | |
 | 1879 - 348 pagine
...with very good company, at the Pineapple, in New Street, just by. Several of them had travelled. They expected to meet every day; but did not know one another's...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1880 - 488 pagine
...with very good company, at the Pine- Apple in New Street, just by. Several of them had travelled. They expected to meet every day, but did not know one another's...nothing." ' He at this time, I believe, abstained entirely from fermented liquors : a practice to which he rigidly conformed for many years together,... | |
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I dined (said he) very well for eight-pence, with very good company, at the PineApple in New-street, just by. 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... 
