Life of Johnson.
“T RECEIVED one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me. begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was drest, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and hart got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his lent, not without rating his landlady m a high tone for having used him so ill. Johnson's narrative.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 936, 5 December 1933, Page 6
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199Life of Johnson. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 936, 5 December 1933, Page 6
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