 ... 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
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1084 pages
...mutterings, his grun tings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, bis vehemence, his insolence, his fits of tempestuous...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 - 1860 - 820 pages
...midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his...inmates, old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hedge and the negro Frank — all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we have been lurrounded... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 338 pages
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 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 752 pages
...midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, n the same manner, existed for Scotland alone. The...world. Nobody at Lambeth, or at Edinburgh, trouble Hedge and the negro Frank — all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 422 pages
...pumngs, his vigorous, aeute, and ready eloquenee, fiis sareastie wit, his vehemenee, his insolenee, his fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates, old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the eat Hodge and the negro Frank — all are as familiar to us as the objeets by whieh we have been surrounded... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 500 pages
...midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his insolence, his fits of tempestuous t rage, his queer inmates, old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge and the negro Frank,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...midnight disputations, his contortions, his muttering?, 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... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 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. The characteristic peculiarity of Johnson's intellect was the union of great powers with low prejudices.... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1865 - 242 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." During more than twenty years of friendship and familiar intercourse between Boswell and Johnson, they... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...midnight disputations, hid contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acate, and ready eloquence ; his sarcastic wit, his vehemence,...rage, his queer inmates— old Mr. Levett and blind Airs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the negro Frank — all are as familiar to us as the objects by... | |
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