 | James Grant - 1880 - 436 pages
...his rolling walk, his blinking eyes, his insatiable appetite for fish sauce and veal pie with plums, his mysterious practice of treasuring up scraps of orange-peel, his morning slumbers, his saw a man led by a bear ! " So romantic and fervid was his admiration of Johnson, that he tells us... | |
 | Fifty celebrated men - Biography - 1881 - 360 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,...fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates, old Mr. I/evett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the negro Frank, all are as familiar to us as the... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...flshsauce and veal -pie with plums, his thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked, and tho twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers — All...clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. Teach us, shielded by his kindness — old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the negro Frank—... | |
 | William Swinton - English literature - 1882 - 686 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,...his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortion*, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence,... | |
 | James Cotter Morison - 1882 - 236 pages
...touching the posts as he walked, his mysterious practice of treasuring up scraps of orange peel, \\ia morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions,...acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his vehement insolence, his fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates — old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs.... | |
 | Morison - 1882 - 212 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,...his mysterious practice of treasuring up scraps of orange peel, his nuirning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1882 - 1002 pages
...fishsauce and veal -pie with plums, his thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked, and t glorious in the m mutter'mgs, his gruntings, his puffings; his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence ; his sarcastic wit,... | |
 | James Cotter Morison - Authors, English - 1899 - 206 pages
...of orange peel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutte rings, his gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his vehement insolence, his fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates — old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 874 pages
...dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and veal-pic with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked,...of treasuring up scraps of orange-peel, his morning sluml>ers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his grantings, his puffings,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, Truman Jay Backus - American literature - 1884 - 500 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,...slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutter was decreed to him, he became acquainted with a young Scotchman, James Boswell, Esq., a vain,... | |
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Vitus's dance, his rolling walk, his blinking eye, the outward signs which too clearly marked his approbation of his dinner, his insatiable appetite for fish-sauce and... 
