| 1831 - 652 pages
...orangc-pecl, his morning slumberSjhis midnightdisputations, his contortions, his muttcrings, his gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence,...objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood. But we have no minute information respecting those years of Johnson's life, during which his character... | |
| Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1839 - 524 pages
...orangepeel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruñtings, his puffings; his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence...which we have been surrounded from childhood.' In 1765 the university of Dublin sent over a diploma creating him a doctor of laws, but he did not assume... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1839 - 1004 pages
...orangepeel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings; his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence...which we have been surrounded from childhood.' In 1765 the university of Dublin sent over a diploma creating him a doctor of laws, but he did not assume... | |
| 1839 - 518 pages
...orangapeel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings; his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence...fits of tempestuous rage his queer inmates— old Mr.Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the negro Frank— all are as familiar to us... | |
| American periodicals - 1839 - 606 pages
...; his morning slumbers, his midnight usputations, his contortions, his muttering», his gruntirigs, his puffings; his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence;...vehemence, his insolence, his fits of tempestuous rage; all are as familiar to us a» the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood. Bui there... | |
| Periodicals - 1839 - 584 pages
...orange-peel ; hia morning slumbers, his midnight deputations, hia contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings ; his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence...his sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his insolence, his lits of tempestuous rage; all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 410 pages
...orange-peel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence,...insolence, his fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates—old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the Negro Frank—all are as familiar... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 336 pages
...disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings ; his vigorous, acute and hearty eloquence ; his sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his...which we have been surrounded from childhood." In 1766, his constitution being greatly weakened, he look up his residence with Mr. Thrale,* at Streat*... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings ; his vigorous, acute and hearty eloquence ; his sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his...which we have been surrounded from childhood." In 1766, his constitution being greatly weakened, he took up his residence with Mr. Thrale,* at Streat*... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...orange-peel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, rarchy, he exerted himself in conjunction with others....Thousands and tens of thousands among his contemporaries But we have no minute information respecting those years of Johnson's life during which his character... | |
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