 | Laurence Hutton - 1885 - 414 pages
...furniture and morn„, . TT. . Boswell's ing dress were sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit Johnson, of clothes looked very rusty ; he had on a little...unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirt neck and knees of his breeches were loose, his black worsted stockings ill drawn up ; and he... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - 1885 - 384 pages
...in his den.' His chambers were on the first floor of No. 1 Inner Temple Lane. . . . He received ine very courteously ; but it must be confessed that his...morning dress were sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit Johnson, — . , T-,. . Boswell's of clothes looked very rusty ; he had on a little old '' " shrivelled... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - 1885 - 414 pages
...found the Giant in his den.' His chambers were on the first floor of No. 1 Inner Temple Lane. . . . He received me very courteously ; but it must be confessed that his apartment and furniture and morn. ert . v . . BOSWell 8 ing dress were sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit Johnson, of clothes... | |
 | Mabel E. Wotton - 1887 - 376 pages
...Boswell's be confessed that his apartment and Life of . Dr. Johnson. furniture and morning dress was sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit of clothes looked...unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirt neck and knees of his breeches were loose, his black worsted stockings ill drawn up, and he had... | |
 | 1888 - 324 pages
...dead a hundred years, and his quaint place of residence obliterated now a quarter of a century : " He received me very courteously ; but it must be confessed that his apartment, and furniture, and morning-dress, were sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit of clothes looked very rusty ; he had on a... | |
 | Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson - 1888 - 306 pages
...dead a hundred years, and his quaint place of residence obliterated now a quarter of a century : " He received me very courteously ; but it must be confessed that his apartment, and furniture, and morning-dress, were sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit of clothes looked very rusty ; he had on a... | |
 | Wilmot Harrison - 1889 - 188 pages
...describes his first visit to Johnson, a few years later, at Inner Temple 17 Gough Square. Lane : — ' i '' It must be confessed that his apartment and furniture...looked very rusty ; he had on a little old shrivelled rmpowdered wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirt-neck and knees of his breeches were loose,... | |
 | 1889 - 652 pages
...morning dress, sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit of clothes looked very rusty ; he had on a little shrivelled unpowdered wig, which was too small for...breeches were loose ; his black worsted stockings ill-drawn up ; and he had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers." This would seem to have been... | |
 | 1889 - 654 pages
...first floor of No. i Middle Temple Lane," he found " his apartment, and furniture, and morning dress, sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit of clothes looked very rusty ; he had on a little shrivelled unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirt-neck and knees of his breeches... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pages
...pains. Sir, it was like leading one to talk of a book, when the author is concealed behind the door." ly wrote again to Dr. Blair, enclosing Johnson's note,...the volume, for which he and Mr. Cadell gave 100/. unpowdercd wig, which was too small for his head; his shirt-neck and knees of his breeches were loose... | |
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His brown suit of clothes looked very rusty: he had on a little old shriveled unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head; his shirt-neck and knees of his breeches were loose; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up; and he had a pair of unbuckled... 
