 ... 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
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1872 - Počet stránok 398
...slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his...Hodge, and the negro Frank), all are as familiar to ns as the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood." 8. The Elements of a Proposition.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - Počet stránok 524
...midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings; his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence ; his sarcastic wit, his...blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the negro Prank — all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood.... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - Počet stránok 782
...midnight disputations ; his contortions ; his mutterings ; his gruntings ; his puffings ; his vigorous, und master ! Fast they come, fast they come — See...Sir W. Scott.— Бот 1771, Died 1832. Like the Johnson had the honour of a conversation with the king in the royal library, in 17C5, when his Majesty... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - Počet stránok 328
...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 [essays]) - 1874 - Počet stránok 264
...midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his...of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates, — old Mr. Levettaml blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge and the negro Frank, — all are as familiar to us as... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1874 - Počet stránok 446
...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 inmatex, old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge and the negro Frank,—all are as familiar... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1875 - Počet stránok 716
...midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his...Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge and the negro Frank, all arc as familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood. But we have no... | |
 | William Lawson (F.R.G.S.) - 1875 - Počet stránok 272
...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 intimates (old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the negro Frank) — all are... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - Počet stránok 334
...eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates, old Mrs. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the negro Frank, all are familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood. Macaulays Essays and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - Počet stránok 898
...his midnight disputations, his contortions, hU muttcrings, his grnntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his...fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates, old Mr. Lcvctt and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge and the negro Frank, all are as familiar to us as the... | |
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