| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 742 pages
...sprightly conversation." When I rose a second time, he again pressed me to stay, which I did. He told me that he generally went abroad at four in the afternoon, and seldom came home till two in the morning. I took the liberty to ask if he did not think it wrong to live thus,... | |
| Laurence Hutton - Authors, English - 1885 - 414 pages
...slippers. But all these slovenly peculiarities were forgotten the moment he began to talk. . . . He told me that he generally went abroad at four in the' afternoon, and seldom came home till two in the morning. I took the liberty to ask if he did not think it wrong to live thus,... | |
| Laurence Hutton - Authors, English - 1885 - 384 pages
...slippers. But all these slovenly peculiarities were forgotten the moment he began to talk. . . . He told me that he generally went abroad at four in the afternoon, and seldom came home till two in the morning. I took the liberty to ask if he did not think it wrong to live thus,... | |
| Laurence Hutton - Authors, English - 1888 - 392 pages
...slippers. But all these slovenly peculiarities were forgotten the moment he began to talk. . . . He told me that he generally went abroad at four in the afternoon, and seldom came home till two in the morning. I took the liberty to ask if he did not think it wrong to live thus,... | |
| Wilmot Harrison - Historic buildings - 1889 - 188 pages
...worsted stockings ill drawn up ; and he had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers He told me that he generally went abroad at four in the afternoon, and seldom came home till two in the morning. I took the liberty to ask him if he did not think it wrong to live... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - Literary landmarks - 1890 - 240 pages
...about his ankles ; and his feet in an old pair of shoes instead of slippers. The great man told Boswell that he generally went abroad at four in the afternoon, and seldom returned home until two in the morning. One of his visitors here was Madame de Boumers, who was introduced by... | |
| James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...sprightly conversation." When I rose a second time, he again pressed me to stay, which I did. He told me, ." JOHNSON: " Madrun, it may; but came home till two in the morning. I took the liberty to ask if he did not think it wrong to live thus,... | |
| William John Loftie - Inns of Chancery - 1893 - 158 pages
...slippers. But all these slovenly peculiarities were forgotten the moment he began to talk. He told me that he generally went abroad at four in the afternoon, and seldom came home till two in the morning. I took the liberty to ask if he did not think it wrong to live thus,... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 590 pages
...man who visits me." When I arose a second time, he again pressed me to stay, which I did. He told me that he generally went abroad at four in the afternoon, and seldom came home till two in the morning. I took the liberty to ask him if he did not think it wrong to live... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1900 - 928 pages
...sprightly conversation." When I rose a second time, he again pressed me to stay, which I did. He told me hich his Majesty had the key. Being entered, Mr Barnard stepped fo came home till two in the morning. I took the liberty to ask if he did not think it wrong to live thus,... | |
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