 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - London (England) - 1891 - 646 pages
...who . . . described his having "found the giant in his den." . . . 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 shrivelled unpowdered wig, which was too small for... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - Authors, English - 1892 - 550 pages
...chambers were on the first floor of No. 1 Inner Temple Lane. ... He received rne very courteously ; but it must be confessed that his apartment and furniture...morning dress were sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit Johnson, of clothes looked very rusty ; he had on a little old 176S> *t- M> shrivelled unpowdered wig,... | |
 | William John Loftie - Inns of Chancery - 1893 - 158 pages
...' His chambers were on the first floor of No. i 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... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - Curiosities and wonders - 1894 - 712 pages
...Kdinburgh, who described his having found the giant in his den. lie received me very courteously ; but it must be confessed, that his apartment, and...furniture, and morning dress, were sufficiently uncouth. Mis brown suit of clothes looked very rusty ; he had on a little, old, shrivelled, unpowdercd wig,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 590 pages
...account of himself. . . . He received me very courteously ; but it must be confessed that his apartments 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1900 - 928 pages
...to talk of a book, when the author is concealed behind the door." He received me very courteously ; , clothes looked very rusty; he had on a little old shrivelled unpowdered wig, which was too small for... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 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,...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 McWilliam - English literature - 1900 - 644 pages
...modestly withdrew, but a week later he ventured to pay Johnson a visit. 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... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - London (England) - 1901 - 412 pages
...lived from 1760 to 1765. Boswell describes his visit to him there : — ' 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 the knees of his breeches were loose ; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up ; and... | |
 | Hugh Hale Leigh Bellot - Inns of Court - 1902 - 558 pages
...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 for his head; his shirt neck and knees of his breeches were loose; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up, and he had... | |
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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... 
