 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1816 - 920 pages
...Johnson. It appears that Gold. smith was not at home, " but having a curiosity," writes Mr. Boswell, " to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animais, scrawled upon the walls, with a black-lead pencil."f HENDON. This extensive parisi), which... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...his landlady and her children : he was The Gentleman. Mr. Mickle, the translator of " The Lusiad," and I, went to visit him at this place a few days...animals, scrawled upon the wall with a black lead pencil. 1 [Mr. Boswell's note here being rather short, as taken at the time, (with a view perhaps to future... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1816 - 932 pages
...Johnson. It appears that Goldsmith was not at home, " but having a curiosity," writes Mr. Boswell, " to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious...descriptions of animals, scrawled upon the wall*, with a black-lead pencil."f HENDON. fltts extensive parish, which is seven miles in length from north to south,... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1816 - 946 pages
...Johnson. It appears that Gold' smith was not at home, " but having a curiosity," writes Mr. Boswell, " to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious...scraps of descriptions of animals, scrawled upon the walls, with a black-lead pencil."f HENDON. This extensive parish, which is seven miles in length from... | |
 | John Britton - 1816 - 944 pages
...Johnson. It appears that Goldsmith was not at home, " but having a curiosity," writes Mr. Boswell, " to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious...scraps of descriptions of animals, scrawled upon the walls, with a black-lead pencil."f HENDON. This extensive parish, which is seven miles in length from... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...his landlady and her children ; he was The Gentleman. Mr. Mickle, the translator of " The Lusiad," and I, went to visit him at this place a few days...introduced, Johnson repeated what he had told me of a friend af his, an honest man, and a man of sense having asserted to him, that he had seen an apparition. Goldsmith... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...differ as to some point : I am only saying that / could do it. You put me in mind of Sappho in Ovid." and I, went to visit him at this place a few days...curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curions scraps of descriptions of animals, scrawled upon the wall with a black lead pencil. The subject... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 480 pages
...his landlady and her children : he was The Gentleman. Mr. Mickle, the translator of " The Lusiad," and I, went to visit him at this place a few days...curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found \ obscure, and requires to be a little opened. What he said, probably was, " You seem to think that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 472 pages
...his landlady and her children : he was The Gentleman. Mr. Mickle, the translator of " The Lusiad," and I, went to visit him at this place a few days...curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found obscure, and requires to be a little opened. What he said, probably was, " You seem to think that two... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pages
...Unfortunately they did not find him at home ; but having some curiosity to see his apartment, they went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions...scrawled upon the wall, with a black lead pencil. He had carried down his books thither, that he might pursue his labours with less interruption. According... | |
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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... 
