 | George William McClelland - English Literature (selections: Extracts, Etc.) - 1925 - 1180 pages
...to talk of a book, when the author is concealed behind the door." He received me very courteously: Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm 'went sufficiently uncouth. .His brown suit of clothes looked very rusty: he had on a little old shriveled... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 924 pages
...and he was diverted at this picturesque account of himself. . . . He received me very courteously: but, it must be confessed, that his apartment, and...dress, - were sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit of clothes looked very rusty: he had on a little old shriveled unpowdered wig, which was too small for... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...and he was diverted at this picturesque account of himself. . . . He received me very courteously: but, it must be confessed, that his apartment, and...dress, were sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit of clothes looked very rusty: he had on a little old shriveled unpowdered wig, which was too small for... | |
 | Clara Elizabeth Laughlin - England - 1926 - 652 pages
...On May 24th, Boswell went to call on Johnson in Inner Temple Lane. 'He received me very courteously, but it must be confessed that his apartment and furniture...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 for... | |
 | Robert Anderson - College readers - 696 pages
...furniture, and morning dress ; which were sufficiently uncouth. " His brown suit of clothes," he tells us, " looked very rusty ; he 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; hr his black worsted stockings ill drawn up, and he... | |
 | William C. Dowling - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 226 pages
...early acquaintance with Johnson thus symbolically involves a confrontation of the real and the ideal: "it must be confessed, that his apartment, and furniture,...unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head" (V.396). The story of these first few weeks concerns Boswell's exploration of the world of actuality... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1998 - 1540 pages
...to talk of a book when the authour is concealed behind the door.' He received me very courteously; but, it must be confessed, that his apartment, and...dress, were sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit of cleaths looked very rusty; he had on a little old shrivelled unpowdered wig, which was too small for... | |
 | 1953 - 328 pages
...furniture and morning dress," wrote Boswell, " were sufficiently 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 and knees of his breeches were loose ; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up ; and he... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 544 pages
...to talk of a book, when the authour is concealed behind the door." He received me very courteously ; but it must be confessed, that his apartment, and...and morning dress, were sufficiently uncouth. His brovvn suit of cloaths looked very rusty ; he had on a little old shrivelled unpowdered wig, which... | |
 | 1904 - 314 pages
...furniture, and morning dress of the sage were, he says, sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit of clothes looked very rusty ; he had on a little old shrivelled unpowdered wig too small for his head ; shirt-neck, and knees of breeches loose ; black worsted stockings ill drawn... | |
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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... 
