 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 590 páginas
...of himself. . . . He received me very courteously ; but it must be confessed that his apartments and furniture and morning dress were sufficiently uncouth....unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head, his neck-cloth and the knees of his breeches were loose ; his black worsted stockings ill drawn-up ; and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 páginas
...the door." He received me very courteously ; but, it must be confessed, that *>-- his apartment, and furniture, and morning dress, were sufficiently uncouth....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 - 1900 - 928 páginas
...behind the door." He received me very courteously ; but it must be confessed that his apartment, and ands & co. shirt-neck and knees of his breeches were loose ; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up ; and he... | |
 | R. McWilliam - 1900 - 834 páginas
...Johnson a visit. He received me very courteously ; but it must be confessed that his apartment, and furniture, and morning dress were sufficiently uncouth....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... | |
 | Hugh Hale Leigh Bellot - 1902 - 558 páginas
...He received me very courteously," writes Boswell, " but it must be confessed that his apartment and furniture and morning dress were sufficiently uncouth....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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 542 páginas
...of himself. . . . He received me very courteously ; but it must be confessed that his apartments and furniture and morning dress were sufficiently uncouth....unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head, his neck-cloth and the knees of his breeches were loose; his black worsted stockings ill drawn-up ; and... | |
 | Sir Thomas Cato Worsfold - 1903 - 190 páginas
....Inihor) Thus does Bosvvell describe the Sage of Fleet Street on the occasion of a visit to him : " His brown suit of clothes looked very rusty, he had...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 páginas
...his apartment, and furniture, and morning dress, were sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit of cloaths 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... | |
 | 1905 - 654 páginas
...given a not very complimentary account of his appearance. " It must be confessed that his apartment and furniture, and morning dress, were sufficiently uncouth....unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirtneck and knees of his stockings ill drawn up, and he had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers."... | |
 | Emily Constance Baird Cook - 1907 - 506 páginas
...been a fashionable figure : " It must be confessed," says Boswell, "that his .... morning dress was sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit of clothes looked...wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirt necl< and the 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... 
