 | Norma Clarke - 2001 - 282 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. Boswell's company was agreeable to Johnson. They walked the streets of London... | |
 | Carl Edmund Rollyson - 2005 - 321 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... | |
 | 1953 - 328 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....particularities were forgotten the moment he began to talk." Great people of the eighteenth century live again for us in the portraits of Gainsborough, Reynolds... | |
 | Henry Arthur Treble - 1930 - 270 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... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1845 - 774 pàgines
...shirtsleeves 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 particularities," adds Boewell, " were forgotten when he began to talk." Johnson's library at this time was in two garrets... | |
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... 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 particularities were forgotten the moment that he began to talk. 
