| Sydney Castle Roberts - 1919 - 210 pàgines
...shirt-neck and knees of his breeches were loose ; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up ; and he had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers....slovenly particularities were forgotten the moment that he began to talk. Some gentlemen, whom I do not recollect, were sitting with him ; and when they... | |
| James Boswell - 1923 - 372 pàgines
...his shirtneck and knees of his breeches were loose ; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up; and he had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers....slovenly particularities were forgotten the moment that he began to talk. Some gentlemen, whom I do not recollect, were sitting with him ; and when they... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 284 pàgines
...shirt-neck and the knees of his breeches were loose; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up; and he had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers....slovenly particularities were forgotten! the moment that he began to talk. Some gentlemen, whom I do not recollect, were sitting with him; and when they... | |
| William Allan Neilson, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1924 - 500 pàgines
...shirt-neck and knees of his breeches were loose; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up ; and he had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers. But all these slovenly peculiarities were forgotten the moment that he began to talk. Some gentlemen, whom I do not recollect,... | |
| Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 942 pàgines
...shirt-neck and knees of his breeches were loose; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up ; and he y, Old Time is still a-flying : And this same flower that smiles to-day particulars were forgotten the moment that he began to talk. Some gentlemen, whom I do not recollect,... | |
| George William McClelland - 1925 - 1178 pàgines
...his shirtneck and knees of his breeches were loose; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up; and he all his wrath or might "° Extort from me. To bow and sue for g 1 He published two epic poem* which he alleged to he translations from the Gaelic of aj»oct called... | |
| Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 pàgines
...his shirt neck and knees of his breeches were loose; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up; and he had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers....slovenly particularities were forgotten the moment that he began to talk. Some gentlemen, whom I do not recollect, were sitting with him; and when they... | |
| Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 pàgines
...his shirt neck and knees of his breeches were loose; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up; and he had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers....slovenly particularities were forgotten the moment that he began to talk. Some gentlemen, whom I do not recollect, were sitting with him; and when they... | |
| Clara Elizabeth Laughlin - 1926 - 652 pàgines
...shirtneck and knees of his breeches were loose, his black worsted stockings were ill drawn up; and he had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers. But all these slovenly peculiarities were forgotten the moment he began to talk. ... He told me that he generally went abroad... | |
| Robert Anderson - 696 pàgines
...shirt neck and knees of his breeches were loose; hr his black worsted stockings ill drawn up, and he had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers....and modes of thinking, and as displaying his powers of logical ratiocination. The practice is liable to strong objections ; but, by good fortune, Mr Boswell... | |
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