 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1775 - 400 pages
...not likely to be ever repaid, and who could be recommended to him only by their neceffities. . • We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of the beds, on which we were to repofe, ftarted up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge. Other circumftances of... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1775 - 552 pages
...was not likely to be ever repaid, and who could be re. commended to him only by their neceffities. '. We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of the beds, on which we were 10 repofe, ftarted up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge. Other circumftances... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...presented to Dr. Johnson and me. The Doctor, in his 'Journey, compares him to a Cyclops. BOSWELL. ' Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose,...entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.' Works, ix. 44. Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale : — ' When we were taken up stairs, a dirty fellow bounced... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...kindncfs was not likely to be ever repaid, and who could be recommended to him only by their neceflities. We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of the beds, on which we were to repofe, ftarted up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge. Other circumftances of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 550 pages
...kindnefs was not likely to be ever repaid, and who could be recommended to him only by their nectffities. We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of the beds, on which we were to repofe, ftarted up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from B b 2 - the the forge. Other circumftances... | |
 | John Knox - Fisheries - 1787 - 566 pages
...was not likely to be ever repaid, and who could be recommended to him only by their neceffities. " We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of the beds on which we were to repofe, ftarted up, at our entrance, a man, black as a Cyclops from the forge. Other circumftancesof... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1792 - 258 pages
...ever repaid, and who could be recommended to him only by their r.ecerthics. We were new to examine cur lodging. Out of one of the beds, on which we were to repofc, flart. ed up, at car entrance, a man bkick as a Cyclops from the fcrg?.. Other circnmfiances... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1800 - 302 pages
...Here was no meat, np milk, no bread, no eggs, no wine. We fKd not express much satisfaction, Hefe, We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of...up at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from tlie forge. Other circumstances of no elegant recital concurred to disgust |is. We had been irighted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 432 pages
...nece.fiities. We were now to examine our lodging. Out of pne of the beds, on which we were to repofe, ftarted up> at our entrance, a man black" as a Cyclops from the the forge. Other circumftances of no elegant recital concurred to difguft. us. We had been frighted... | |
 | 1831 - 652 pages
...the ' bed on which one of us was to lie.' This incident is recorded in the Journey as follows : — ' Out of one of the beds on which ' we were to repose,...entrance, a man black * as a Cyclops from the forge.' Sometimes Johnson translated aloud. • The Rehearsal,' he said, very unjustly, • has not wit ' enough... | |
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Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge. 
