 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...  London and Middlesex, Or, An Historical, Commercial, & Descriptive Survey of ... - Pàgina 683per Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1816Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1882 - 726 pàgines
...finding that he was out, he went up to his room ; ' having a curiosity,' as Mr. Boswell simply said, ' to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals scrawled on the walls with a black-lead pencil.' Perhaps the north-eastern part of the county is almost more... | |
 | Belgravia - 1882 - 548 pàgines
...finding that he was out, he went up to his room ; ' having a curiosity,' as Mr. Boswell simply said, ' to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals scrawled on the walls with a black-lead pencil.' Perhaps the north-eastern part of the county is almost more... | |
 | Alfred Rimmer - 1882 - 378 pàgines
...having a curiosity," as Mr. Boswell simply said, " to see his BEAUTIES OF COUNTRY ROUND LONDON. 265 apartment ; we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals scrawled on the walls with a black-lead pencil." Perhaps the north.- eastern part of the county is almost more... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1882 - 966 pàgines
...translator 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.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 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... | |
 | Edward Walford - 1884 - 628 pàgines
...Goldsmith was not " at home ; " " but having a curiosity," writes Boswell, " to see his apartments, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions...animals scrawled upon the walls with a black-lead pencil." It appears to have been in or about the year 1773 that Goldsmith joined a fellow-countryman... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 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... | |
 | Edward Walford - 1885 - 664 pàgines
...that Goldsmith was not "at home:" " but having a curiosity," writes Boswell, " to see his apartments, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions...animals scrawled upon the walls with a black-lead pencil." It appears to have been in or about the year 1773 that Goldsmith joined a fellow-countryman... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 572 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. **) "When Goldsmith was dying, Dr. Turton said to him,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 416 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 sorawled upon the wall with a blacklead pencil." Boswell. XX 23 hundred poor dependants, whose appealing... | |
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