...appetite for fish-sauce and veal-pie with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his trick for e pronounced, when the foreman of the jury begged...might be handed into the box. He handled it, and they But we have no minute information respecting those years of Johnson's life during which his character...

...vehemence, his insolence, his fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates, shielded by his kindness — love-laden Soul in secret hour With music sweet as...love, which overflows her bower: Like a glowworm For all this knowledge we are indebted to James Boswell, Esquire, "a Scottish advocate, of shallow...

...wit, his vehemence, his insolence, his fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates, old Mr. I/evett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the negro...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,...

...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...

...queer inmates, shielded by his kindness — old Mr. Levctt and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat lloduc, ng where it lies; But, gazing back upon the skies,...a mournful light, Like its owu tear, Because so lo For all this knowledge we are indebted to James Boswell, Esquire," a Scottish advocate, of shallow...

...orange-peel, his morning sluml>ers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his grantings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence,...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...

...Scotland and the Scotch, and thus to dissipate many of his odd prejudices against the Ings, his grnntlngs, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence,...which we have been surrounded from childhood."— TB MacatUay country and the people. The volume giving an account ol his impressions contains many interesting...

...fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates, old Mr. Levett and hlind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodgo and the negro Frank,— all are as familiar to us...which we have been surrounded from childhood."— TB Macauiay. country and the people. The volume giving an account ol his impressions contains many...

...dinner, his insatiable appetite for fishsauce 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. — MACAULAY. COMMENTS. Here lies Sam Johnson. Reader, have a care, Tread lightly, lest you wake a...

...blinking eye, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and veal-pie with pluma, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked,...by which we have been surrounded from childhood." 5. His chief works are : — (1.) The Vanity of Human Wishes (a poem). (2 .) Rasselas. (3.) The Dictionary....