 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pàgines
...went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards. He was not at home ; but, having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious...scraps of descriptions of animals, scrawled upon the wall witli a black-lead pencil. The subject of ghosts being introduced, Johnson repeated what he had... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1913 - 872 pàgines
...House farm, ' he was not at home ; but having a curiosity ' — when was Boswell without one ? — ' we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals scrawled upon the wall with a blacklead pencil.' Among them Boswell may have found some definition of a parasite, or... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862 - 328 pàgines
...went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards. He was not at home; but, having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious...scraps of descriptions of animals scrawled upon the wall with a blacklead pencil. The subject of ghosts being introduced, Johnson repeated what he had... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pàgines
...went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards. He was not at home ; but having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious,...scraps of descriptions of animals scrawled upon the wall with a blacklead pencil.' — BOSWELL. asked, ' so trusted before ? ' As has been the case with... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 464 pàgines
...of the " Lusiad." Goldsmith was not at home. Having a curiosity to see his apartment, however, they went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals scrawled upon the wall with a black-lead pencil. The farm-house in question is still in existence, though much altered.... | |
 | 1865 - 342 pàgines
...went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards. He was not at home; but, having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious...scraps of descriptions of animals scrawled upon the wall with a black* lead pencil. The subject of ghosts being introduced, Johnson repeated what he had... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 pàgines
...passed up the staircase, which Johnson, and Burke, and Reynolds not at home ; but having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious...scraps of descriptions of animals scrawled upon the wall with a blacklead pencil." — BOSWELL. * "When Goldsmith was dying, Dr. Turton said to him, 'Your... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pàgines
...passed up the staircase, which Johnson, and Burke, and Reynolds not at home ; but having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious...scraps of descriptions of animals scrawled upon the wall with a blacklead pencil. " — BOSWELL. * "When Goldsmith was dying, Dr. Turton said to him, 'Your... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 pàgines
...passed up the staircase, which Johnson, and Burke, and Reynolds not at home ; but having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious...scraps of descriptions of animals scrawled upon the wall with a blacklead pencil. "— BOSWELL. * "When Goldsmith was dying, Dr. Turton said to him, 'Your... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pàgines
...passed up the staircase, which Johnson, and Burke, and Reynolds not at home ; but having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious...scraps of descriptions of animals scrawled upon the wall with a blacklead pencil. " — BOSWELL. * "When Goldsmith was dying, Dr. Turton said to him, 'Your... | |
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Mr. Mickle, the translator of " The Lusiad," and I, went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards. He was not at home ; but having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals, scrawled upon... 
