 Tower-hill, where he is said to have died of want; or, as it is related by one of his biographers, by swallowing, after a long fast, a piece of bread which charity had supplied. He went out, as is reported, almost naked, in the rage of hunger, and, finding...  A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature ... - Page 377edited by - 1829Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 328 pages
...rage of hunger, and finding a gentleman in a neighbouring coffee-houfe, ailced him for a Ihilling. The gentleman gave him a guinea; and Otway going away bought a roll, and was choaked with the firft mouthful. All this, I hope, is not true ; but that ia.r digence, and 'its concomitants,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...gave him a guinea; andOtway going away bought a roll, and was choakcd with the firft Z 3 mouthful, mouthful. All this, I hope, is not true ; but that indigence, and its concomitants, forrow and defpondency, brought him to the grave, has never been denied. Of the poems which the late... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 478 pages
...the rage of hunger, and finding a gentleman in a neighbouring coffee-houfe, aflced him for a milling. The gentleman gave him a guinea ; and Otway going away bought a roll, and was Y 4 choaked choaked with the firft mouthful. All this, I hope, is not true ; and there is this ground... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...the rage of hunger, and finding a gentleman in a neighbouring coffee-houfe, afked him for a fhilling. The gentleman gave him a guinea; and Otway going away bought a roll, and was choaked with the firft mouthful. All this, I hope, is not true; and there is this ground of better... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...the rage of hunger, and finding a gentleman in a neighbouring coffee-houfe, alked him for a Ihilling. The gentleman gave him a guinea; and Otway going away bought a roll, and was choaked with the firfl mouthful. All this, I hope, is not true; and there is this ground of better... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1790 - 644 pages
...rage of hunger, and, finding a gentleman in a neighbouring coffee-houfe, afked him for a (hilling. The gentleman gave him a guinea ; and Otway, going away, bought a roil, and was choaked with the nrft mouthful. " All this, 1 hope, is not truej but that indignation,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...hunger, and, finding a gentleman in a neighbouring coffee-houfe, a/ked him for a fhilling. Thegemleman gave him a guinea; and Otway going away bought a roll, and was choaked with the fuft mouthful. All this, I hope, is not true; and there is this ground of better hope,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...the rage of hunger, and finding a gentleman in a neighbouring coffee-houfe, afked him for a fhilling. The gentleman gave him a guinea ; and Otway going away bought a roll, and was choaked with ^the firft mouthful. All this, I hope, is not true; put that indigence, and its concomitants,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1797 - 278 pages
...The gentleman gave him a guinea ; and Orway going away bought a roll, and was choaked with the firft mouthful. All this I hope is not true ; but that indigence and its concomitants, forrow and defpondency, brought him to the grave, has never been denied." " Of the poems which this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...a piece of bread which charity had supplied. He went out, as is reported, almost naked, in the rage of hunger* and finding a gentleman in a neighbouring...guinea ; and Otway going away bought a roll, and was choaked with the first mouthful. All this, I hope, is not true ; and there is this ground of better... | |
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