 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 640 pages
...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 shoes by way of slippers. But all these slovenly particulars were forgotten the moment that he began to talk. — Boswell, p. 134. When Madam de Boufflers... | |
 | William John Loftie - 1893 - 158 pages
...uncouth. His brown suit of clothes looked very rusty; he had on a little, old, shrivelled, unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirt-neck...unbuckled shoes by way of slippers. But all these slovenly peculiarities were forgotten the moment he began to talk. He told me that he generally went abroad... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1894 - 712 pages
...had on a little, old, shrivelled, unpowdercd wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirt neck and knees of his breeches were loose, his black worsted...ill drawn up, and he had a pair of unbuckled shoes bv way of slippers ; — but all these slovenly particulars were forgotten tno moment he began to talk."... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 590 pages
...his neck-cloth and the knees of his breeches were loose ; his black worsted stockings ill drawn-up ; and he had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers. But all these slovenly peculiarities were forgotten the moment he began to talk. Some gentlemen, whom I do not recollect,... | |
 | Robert McWilliam - 1900 - 644 pages
...uncouth. His brown suit of clothes looked very rusty; he had on a little old shrivelled unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirtneck...particularities were forgotten the moment that he began to talk. The acquaintance thus happily begun went on and prospered, and we soon have pleasant accounts of suppers... | |
 | R. McWilliam - 1900 - 834 pages
...uncouth. His brown suit of clothes looked very rusty ; he had on a little old shrivelled unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirtneck and knees of his breeches were loose ; his blaek worsted stockings ill drawn up, and he had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers. But... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1901 - 412 pages
...on a little old shrivelled unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirt neck and the knees of his breeches were loose ; his black worsted...unbuckled shoes by way of slippers. But all these slovenly;particulars were forgotten the moment he began to talk.' By Inner Temple Lane we reach the... | |
 | Hugh Hale Leigh Bellot - 1902 - 558 pages
...had on a little, old, shrivelled, unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head; his shirt neck and knees of his breeches were loose; his black worsted...unbuckled shoes by way of slippers. But all these slovenly peculiarities were forgotten the moment he began to talk. He told me that he generally went abroad... | |
 | Sir Thomas Cato Worsfold - 1903 - 190 pages
...on a little old shrivelled unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head, his shirt-neck and the knees of his breeches were loose, his black worsted...unbuckled shoes by way of slippers. But all these slovenly particulars were forgotten the moment he began to talk." It is said that Dr. Johnson lived at No. 2,... | |
 | Emily Constance Baird Cook - 1903 - 542 pages
...a little old shrivelled, unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirt neck and the knees of his breeches were loose, his black worsted...had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers." Doctor Johnson was, indeed, a faithful Londoner. He lived in no less than sixteen London houses (among... | |
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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 little old shrivelled unpowdered wig, which was too small... 
