 ... 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 morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings,...  Fifty celebrated men: their lives and trials [&c.]. - Strana 286podľa Fifty celebrated men - 1862 - Počet stránok 311Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | 1831 - Počet stránok 652
...slumberSjhis midnightdisputations, his contortions, his muttcrings, his gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, 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... | |
 | 1839 - Počet stránok 518
...midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his grunt ings, his puffings; his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence ; his sarcastic wit, his...by which we have been surrounded from childhood." In 17fi5 the university of Dublin sent over a diploma creating him a doctor of laws, but he did not... | |
 | 1839 - Počet stránok 1000
...midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings; his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence ; his sarcastic wit, his...by which we have been surrounded from childhood.' In 1765 the university of Dublin sent over a diploma creating him a doctor of laws, but he did not... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1839 - Počet stránok 524
...midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruñtings, his puffings; his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence ; his sarcastic wit, his...by which we have been surrounded from childhood.' In 1765 the university of Dublin sent over a diploma creating him a doctor of laws, but he did not... | |
 | 1839 - Počet stránok 518
...midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings; his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence ; his sarcastic wit, his...fits of tempestuous rage his queer inmates— old Mr.Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the negro Frank— all are as familiar to us... | |
 | 1839 - Počet stránok 606
...midnight usputations, his contortions, his muttering», his gruntirigs, his puffings; his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence; his sarcastic wit, his...vehemence, his insolence, his fits of tempestuous rage; all are as familiar to us a» the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood. Bui there... | |
 | 1839 - Počet stránok 584
...midnight deputations, hia contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings ; his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence ; his sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his insolence, his lits of tempestuous rage; all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - Počet stránok 512
...midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - Počet stránok 410
...midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his...insolence, his fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates—old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the Negro Frank—all are as familiar... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - Počet stránok 336
...disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings ; his vigorous, acute and hearty eloquence ; his sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his...by which we have been surrounded from childhood." In 1766, his constitution being greatly weakened, he look up his residence with Mr. Thrale,* at Streat*... | |
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