 ... 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
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, bis puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence;...as the objects by which we have been surrounded." In 1773, in company with Mr. Boswell, he made a tour to the Western Islands of Scotland, of which he... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...contortions, his mutterings, his grimtings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready «loquence. ulay But we have no minute information respecting those years of Johnson's life during which his character... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence j his sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his insolence, his...as the objects by which we have been surrounded." In 1773, in company with Mr. Boswell, he made a tour to the Western Islands of Scotland, of which he... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1859 - 768 pages
...sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his insolence, his fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates, old Mr. Leven and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge and the negro...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 Orchart Beeton - 1859 - 414 pages
...vehemence ; his insolence ; his fits of tempestuous rage ; his queer inmates — old Mr. Levett a&d blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the negro...by which we have been surrounded from childhood." Johnson had the honour of a conversation with the king in the royal library, in 1765, when his majesty... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - History - 1859 - 408 pages
...queer inmates, old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge', and the negro Frank, ail are familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood." Speaking of BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON, Mr. Carlyle says: " How the babbling Bozzy, inspired only by... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - Christianity - 1859 - 420 pages
...queer inmates, old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the negro Frank, all arc familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood." Speaking of BOSWELL'B LIFE OF JOHNSON, Mr. Carlyle says : " How the babbling Bozzy, inspired only by... | |
 | Henry George John Clements - 1860 - 176 pages
...of touching the posts as he walked, his mysterious practice of treasuring up scraps of orange peel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...of touching the posts as he walked, his mysterious practice of treasuring up scraps of orange peel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his...as the objects by which we have been surrounded." lu 1773, in company with Mr. Bos well, he made a tour to the Western Islands of Scotland, of which... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...of touching the posts as he walked, his mysterious practice of treasuring up scraps of orange peel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his...as the objects by which we have been surrounded." In 1773, in company with Mr. Boswell, he made a tour to the Western Islands of Scotland, of which he... | |
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