 ... 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
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1084 pages
...mutterings, his grun tings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, bis vehemence, his insolence, his fits of tempestuous...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 literature - 1860 - 820 pages
...fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates, old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hedge and the negro Frank — all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we have been lurrounded from childhood. But we have no mínate information respecting those years of Johnson's life... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1861 - 500 pages
...acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his insolence, his fits of tempestuous t rage, his queer inmates, old Mr. Levett and blind...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 literature - 1861 - 752 pages
...fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates, old Mr, Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hedge lf about But we have no minute information respecting those years of Johnson's life during which his character... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 422 pages
...insolenee, his fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates, old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the eat Hodge and the negro Frank — all are as familiar to us as the objeets by whieh we have been surrounded from ehildhood. But we have no minute information respeeting... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862 - 508 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... | |
 | Fifty celebrated men - Biography - 1862 - 354 pages
...midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings, his rigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his...by which we have been surrounded from childhood." Of Dr. Johnson's literary style there has been a great deal written. His composition is solid, weighty,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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." In 1773, in company with Mr. Boswell, he made a tour to the Western Islands of Scotland, of which he... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 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. The characteristic peculiarity of Johnson's intellect was the union of great powers with low prejudices.... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1865 - 230 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...by which we have been surrounded from childhood." During more than twenty years of friendship and familiar intercourse between Boswell and Johnson, they... | |
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