 | 1888 - 324 σελίδες
...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...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... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - 1888 - 392 σελίδες
...little old 1763' m' 54shrivelled unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirt neck and knees of his breeches were loose, his black worsted...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 σελίδες
...brown suit of clothes looked very rusty; he had on a little old shrivelled unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirtneck and knees of...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... | |
 | Wilmot Harrison - 1889 - 188 σελίδες
...brown suit of clothes looked very rusty ; he had on a little old shrivelled rmpowdered wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirt-neck and knees...he had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers He told me that he generally went abroad at four in the afternoon, and seldom came home till two in... | |
 | 1889 - 652 σελίδες
...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...breeches were loose ; his black worsted stockings ill-drawn up ; and he had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers." This would seem to have been... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 σελίδες
...brown suit of clothes looked very rusty ; he had on a little old shrivelled unpowdercd wig, which was too small for his head; his shirt-neck and knees of...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 Henry Davenport Adams - 1890 - 240 σελίδες
...brown suit of clothes looked very rusty ; he had on a little old shrivelled uupowdered wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirt-neck and knees...unbuckled shoes by way of slippers. But all these slovenly peculiarities were forgotten the moment lie began to talk." Humphrey, the Royal Academician, describes... | |
 | James Copner - 1890 - 370 σελίδες
...on a little old shrivelled unpowdered wig which was too small for his head. His shirt- neck and the knees of his breeches were loose, his black worsted...had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers." His biographer adds — " but all these slovenly peculiarities were forgotten the moment be began to... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 640 σελίδες
...head ; 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. But all these slovenly particulars were forgotten the moment that he began to talk. — Boswell, p. 134. When Madam de Boufflers... | |
 | Joseph Hatton - 1892 - 332 σελίδες
...brown suit of clothes looked very rusty ; he had on a little old shrivelled unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head ; his shirt-neck and knees...unbuckled shoes by way of slippers. But all these slovenly particulars were forgotten the moment he began to talk." For many years this house was inscribed :... | |
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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... 
