 | Laurence Hutton - 1892 - 542 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...penny, and gave the waiter a penny ; so that I was qnite well served, nay, better than the rest, for they gave the waiter nothing.' About this period... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - 1892 - 536 pagine
...did not know one another's names. It used to cost the rest a shilling, for they drank wine ; but T had a cut of meat for sixpence, and bread for a penny,...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... | |
 | H. G. Somerville - 1896 - 244 pagine
...Apple in New Street fast by. Several of them had travelled, they expected to meet every day; but they did not know one another's names. It used to cost...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... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 512 pagine
...liquors.' Life, i. 103. Johnson describing his dinner at the Pine Apple, in New Street, B b 2 said : — ' It used to cost the rest a shilling, for they drank...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 pagine
...(said he) very well for eight-pence, with very good company. . . 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.' 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 - 638 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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pagine
...with very good company, at the Pine-Apple, in New Street, just by. Several of them had travelled. They entirely from fermented liquors : a practice to which he rigidly conformed for many years together,... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1901 - 302 pagine
...(said he) very well for eightpence, with very good company. . . . 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." In May's Buildings (where in later years the club called The Eccentrics held its sittings) there flourished,... | |
 | Austin Brereton - 1903 - 384 pagine
...he " dined very well for eightpence, and with very good company. 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." Between Exeter Street and the Strand were two narrow passages, containing slum dwellings, called Exchange... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pagine
...with very good company, at the Pine Apple in New-street, just by. Several of them had travelled. They brushing in between me and Madame de Boufflers, seized her hand, and conducted her to her coach. \>read for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny ; so that I was quite well served, nay, better 1 One... | |
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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... 
