 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pages
...admired tailor brought home my bloom-coloured coat, he said, ' Sir, I hare a favour to beg of yon. When any body asks you who made your clothes, be pleased...mention John Filby, at the Harrow, in Water Lane.'" JOHKSOK. "Why, Sir, that was because he knew the strange colour would attract crowds to gaze at it,... | |
 | Walter Thornbury - Art, Modern - 1861 - 388 pages
...mock indignation). Let me tell you that when my tailor brought home my Tyrian bloom coat yesterday, he said, " Sir, I have a favour to beg of you. When anybody asks you who made your clothes, be pleased to mention John Filby, at the 'Harrow,' in Water... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862 - 328 pages
...gentleman; but I am talking of being well or ill dressed.' * Well, let me tell you (said Goldsmith), when my tailor brought home my bloom-coloured coat,...said, " Sir, I have a favour to beg of you. — When anybody asks who made your clothes, be pleased to mention John Filby, at the Harrow, in Water Lane."... | |
 | John Timbs - Humorists, English - 1862 - 424 pages
...tailor brought home my bloom-coloured coat, he said, " Sir, I have a favour to beg of you ; when anybody asks you who made your clothes, be pleased to mention John Filby, at the Harrow, in Water Lane." ' ' Why, sir,' cried Johnson, ' that was because he knew the strange colour would attract crowds to... | |
 | John Timbs - Humorists, English - 1862 - 422 pages
...am talking of your being well or ill-dressed? ' Well, let me tell you,' said Goldsmith, ' when the tailor brought home my bloom-coloured coat, he said, " Sir, I have a favour to beg of you ; when anybody asks you who made your clothes, be pleased to mention John Filby, at the Harrow, in Water Lane."... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 464 pages
...tailor brought home my bloomcolored coat, he said, " Sir, I have a favor to beg of you ; when anybody asks you who made your clothes, be pleased to mention John Filby, at the Harrow, in Water Lane.' " 'Why, sir,' cried Johnson, 'that was because he knew the strange color would attract crowds to gaze... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 664 pages
...tailor brought home my bloom-colored coat, he said, '- Sir, I have a favor to beg of you ; when anybody asks you who made your clothes, be pleased to mention John Filby, at the Harrow, iu Water Lane." ' ' Why, sir,' cried Johnson, ' that was because he knew the strange color would attract... | |
 | 1865 - 342 pages
...dressed.' ' Well, let me tell you (said Goldsmith), when my tailor brought home my bloom -coloured coat, he said, " Sir, I have a favour to beg of you. — When anybody asks who made your clothes, be pleased to mention John Filby, at the Harrow, in Water Lane."... | |
 | Jacob Larwood, John Camden Hotten - Inn signs - 1866 - 616 pages
...gentleman, but I am talking of being well or ill drat.' ' Well, let me tell you,' said Goldsmith, ' when my tailor brought home my bloomcoloured coat,...he said, " Sir, I have a favour to beg of you. When anybody asks you who made your clothes, be pleased to mention, John FMy, at the Ilarrow in Water Lane."... | |
 | Washington Irving - Authors, Irish - 1868 - 486 pages
...tailor brought home my bloom-colored coat, he said, " Sir, I have a favor to beg of you ; when anybody asks you who made your clothes, be pleased to mention John Filby, at the Harrow, in Water Lane." ' ' Why, sir,' cried Johnson, ' that was because he knew the strange color would attract crowds to... | |
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Why, sir, that was because he knew the strange colour would attract crowds to gaze at it, and thus they might hear of him, and see how well he could make a coat even of so absurd a colour. 
