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" Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge. "
Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to His Friend in London ... - Page 21
by Edward Burt - 1822
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 39

Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1775 - 552 pages
...'. We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of the beds, on which we were 10 repofe, ftarted up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge. Other circumftances of no elegant recital concurred to difguft us. We had been frighted by a lady at Edinburgh,...
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1775 - 400 pages
...• We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of the beds, on which we were to repofe, ftarted up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge. Other circumftances of no elegant recital concurred to difguft us. We had been frighted by a lady at Edinburgh,...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ...

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...presented to Dr. Johnson and me. The Doctor, in his 'Journey, compares him to a Cyclops. BOSWELL. ' Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose,...entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.' Works, ix. 44. Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale : — ' When we were taken up stairs, a dirty fellow bounced...
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Political tracts. Political essays. Miscellaneous essays. A journey to the ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...neceflities. We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of the beds, on which we were to repofe, ftarted up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge. Other circumftances of no elegant recital concurred to difguft us. We had been frighted by a lady at Edinburgh,...
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A Tour Through the Highlands of Scotland, and the Hebride Isles, in MDCCLXXXVI.

John Knox - Fisheries - 1787 - 566 pages
...neceffities. " We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of the beds on which we were to repofe, ftarted up, at our entrance, a man, black as a Cyclops from the forge. Other circumftancesof no elegant recital concurred to difguft us. We had -been fouth entrance of the found,...
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1800 - 302 pages
...bread, no eggs, no wine. We fKd not express much satisfaction, Hefe, We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of the beds, on which we were to repose,...up at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from tlie forge. Other circumstances of no elegant recital concurred to disgust |is. We had been irighted...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 432 pages
...nece.fiities. We were now to examine our lodging. Out of pne of the beds, on which we were to repofe, ftarted up> at our entrance, a man black" as a Cyclops from the the forge. Other circumftances of no elegant recital concurred to difguft. us. We had been frighted...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 54

1831 - 652 pages
...the ' bed on which one of us was to lie.' This incident is recorded in the Journey as follows : — ' Out of one of the beds on which ' we were to repose,...entrance, a man black * as a Cyclops from the forge.' Sometimes Johnson translated aloud. • The Rehearsal,' he said, very unjustly, • has not wit ' enough...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1806 - 360 pages
...and who could be recommended to him only by their necessities. We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of the beds, on which we were to repose,...elegant recital concurred to disgust us. We had been frighted by a lady at Edinburgh, with discouraging representations of Highland lodgings. Sleep, however,...
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The British Tourist's, Or, Traveller's Pocket Companion, Through ..., Volume 2

William Fordyce Mavor - Great Britain - 1809 - 378 pages
...and who could be recommended to him only by their necessities. We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of the beds, on which we were to repose,...circumstances of no elegant recital concurred to disgust ns. We had been frighted by a lady at Edinburgh, with dis. couraging representations of Highland lodgings....
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