... his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his insolence, his fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates,... Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge - Page 1311839Full view - About this book
| 1831 - 652 pages
...scraps of orangc-pecl, his morning slumberSjhis midnightdisputations, his contortions, his muttcrings, his gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute,...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...of doctor until eight or ten years afterwards, when tho university of Oxford conferred the same honour upon him. In 1 766 his constitution seemed to be... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1839 - 518 pages
...orangepeel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his grunt ings, his puffings; his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence...which we have been surrounded from childhood." In 17fi5 the university of Dublin sent over a diploma creating him a doctor of laws, but he did not assume... | |
| Periodicals - 1839 - 584 pages
...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 from childhood. Bui there has been no BOZWELL to unriddle us MARSH ! He has himself alluded, indeed, to his English... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 512 pages
...dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and veal-pie with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked,...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 516 pages
...inextinguishable thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked, his mysterious practice of 3» treasuring up scraps of orange-peel, his morning slumbers,...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 410 pages
...his queer inmates—old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the Negro Frank—all are as familiar to us as the 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... | |
| 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*... | |
| 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*... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and vealpie with plums, his inextinguishable thirst at of Charles. He knew that those who, with the best...the king and imprisoning the malignants, acted like But we have no minute information respecting those years of Johnson's life during which his character... | |
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