 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 - 1854 - 346 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...the first mouthful. All this, I hope, is not true ; and there is this ground of better hope, that Pope, who lived near enough to be well informed, relates... | |
 | William Keddie - Literature - 1854 - 400 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...gave him a guinea; and Otway going away, bought a i-oll, and was choked with the first mouthful. All this, I hope, is not true ; and theve is ground... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - Authors, English - 1854 - 292 pages
...the rage of hunger, and finding a gentleman in a neighboring Coffee House, asked him for a shilling; and / Otway, going away bought a roll, and was choked \ with the first mouthful." Such, at the age of thirtythree, is said to have been the fate of the author of " Venice Preserved."... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1856 - 364 pages
...terriera of the law, retired to a public-house on Tower Hill, and, almost naked, went out in the rage of hunger, and finding a gentleman in a neighbouring...bought a roll, and was choked with the first mouthful. to the Anchor in Monmouth Street to see for the breeches which I had given him and he had sold for... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1856 - 392 pages
...terriers of the law, retired to a public-house on Tower Hill, and, almost naked, went out in the rage of hunger, and finding a gentleman in a neighbouring...for a shilling. The gentleman gave him a guinea, and Oiway going away bought a roll, and was choked with the first mouthful. to the Anchor in Monmouth Street... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...in the rage of hunger, and almost naked ; and finding a gentleman in a neighboring coffee-house, he asked him for a shilling. The gentleman gave him a...bought a roll, and was choked with the first mouthful.' Poverty and its attendants, sorrow and despondency, pressed hard upon poor Otway in life, and his grave... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1871 - 460 pages
...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...bought a roll, and was choked with the first mouthful." Such, at the age of thirtythree, is said to have been the fate of " poor Tom Otway," to whose imaginative... | |
 | Autographs - 1875 - 334 pages
...sickness. But the following is the most generally received tradition : " He went out almost naked in a rage of hunger, and finding a gentleman in a neighbouring...and Otway, going away bought a roll, and was choked by the first mouthful." The traveller, in casting a parting glance at the spire and antique bridge... | |
 | Charles Fleet - 1883 - 338 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...bought a roll, and was choked with the first mouthful. The other and more authentic account, as given by Dennis, is, that an intimate friend of the poet (Blakeston... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - Authors, English - 1885 - 384 pages
...went out, as is reported, almost naked, in a rage of hunger, and, finding a gentleman in a neighboring coffee-house, asked him for a shilling. The gentleman...and Otway, going away, bought a roll and was choked by the first mouthful. All this, I hope, is not true. If Lee died tipsy outside a public house, Otway... | |
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