 ... 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.]. - Page 286by Fifty celebrated men - 1862 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1831 - 652 pages
...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 - 518 pages
...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 - 1000 pages
...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 - 524 pages
...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 - 518 pages
...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 - 606 pages
...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 - 584 pages
...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 - 512 pages
...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 - 410 pages
...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... | |
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