 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...  Literary Londonby Elsie M. Lang - 1906 - 349 pagesSnippet view - About this book
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 742 pages
...getting acquainted with all the notorieties of the day, and these were then reigning wits. — Croker. He received me very courteously ; but it must be confessed,...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... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - Authors, English - 1885 - 384 pages
...in his den.' His chambers were on the first floor of No. 1 Inner Temple Lane. . . . He received ine very courteously ; but it must be confessed that his...morning dress were sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit Johnson, — . , T-,. . Boswell's of clothes looked very rusty ; he had on a little old '' " shrivelled... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1885 - 490 pages
...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... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - Literary Criticism - 1885 - 414 pages
...found the Giant in his den.' His chambers were on the first floor of No. 1 Inner Temple Lane. . . . He received me very courteously ; but it must be confessed that his apartment and furniture and morn. ert . v . . BOSWell 8 ing dress were sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit Johnson, of clothes... | |
 | Antiquities - 1888 - 324 pages
...dead a hundred years, and his quaint place of residence obliterated now a quarter of a century : " 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... | |
 | Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson - Archaeology - 1888 - 306 pages
...dead a hundred years, and his quaint place of residence obliterated now a quarter of a century : " 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 pages
...pains. Sir, it was like leading one to talk of a book when the author is concealed behind the door." He received me very courteously ; but it must be confessed,...unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirtneck and knees of his breeches were loose; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up ; and he had... | |
 | Wilmot Harrison - Historic buildings - 1889 - 188 pages
...describes his first visit to Johnson, a few years later, at Inner Temple 17 Gough Square. Lane : — ' i '' It must be confessed that his apartment and furniture...looked very rusty ; he had on a little old shrivelled rmpowdered wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirt-neck and knees of his breeches were loose,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1889 - 654 pages
...first floor of No. i Middle Temple Lane," he found " his apartment, and furniture, and morning dress, sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit of clothes looked very rusty ; he had on a little shrivelled unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirt-neck and knees of his breeches... | |
 | James Copner - Realism - 1890 - 370 pages
...manners, and his mode of daily life, made it plain to everybody. "It must be confessed," says Boswell, " that his apartment and furniture and morning dress...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 he had a pair of... | |
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