 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1775 - 552 pages
...'. We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of the beds, on which we were 10 repofe, ftarted up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge. Other circumftances of no elegant recital concurred to difguft us. We had been frighted by a lady at Edinburgh,... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...presented to Dr. Johnson and me. The Doctor, in his 'Journey, compares him to a Cyclops. BOSWELL. ' Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose,...entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.' Works, ix. 44. Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale : — ' When we were taken up stairs, a dirty fellow bounced... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...neceflities. We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of the beds, on which we were to repofe, ftarted up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge. Other circumftances of no elegant recital concurred to difguft us. We had been frighted by a lady at Edinburgh,... | |
 | John Knox - Fisheries - 1787 - 566 pages
...neceffities. " We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of the beds on which we were to repofe, ftarted up, at our entrance, a man, black as a Cyclops from the forge. Other circumftancesof no elegant recital concurred to difguft us. We had -been fouth entrance of the found,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 432 pages
...nece.fiities. We were now to examine our lodging. Out of pne of the beds, on which we were to repofe, ftarted up> at our entrance, a man black" as a Cyclops from the the forge. Other circumftances of no elegant recital concurred to difguft. us. We had been frighted... | |
 | 1831 - 652 pages
...the ' bed on which one of us was to lie.' This incident is recorded in the Journey as follows : — ' Out of one of the beds on which ' we were to repose,...entrance, a man black * as a Cyclops from the forge.' Sometimes Johnson translated aloud. • The Rehearsal,' he said, very unjustly, • has not wit ' enough... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Great Britain - 1809 - 378 pages
...company, and the gentleman, whose name, I think, is Gordon, well knowing the penury of the place, paid this attention to two men, whose names, perhaps, he...circumstances of no elegant recital concurred to disgust ns. We had been frighted by a lady at Edinburgh, with dis. couraging representations of Highland lodgings.... | |
 | Edward Burt - Highland (Scotland) - 1815 - 312 pages
...When I had been conducted to my lodging- room, . I found the curtains of my bed * were very foul by * Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose,...Edinburgh, with discouraging representations of Highland lodging : sleep, however, was necessary. Our Highlanders had at last found some hay, with which the... | |
 | Edward Burt - Highlands (Scotland) - 1822 - 436 pages
...talking of eating. " When I had been conducted to my lodgingroom, I found the curtains of my bed* were * Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose,...elegant recital concurred to disgust us. We had been frightened by a lady at Edinburgh, with discouraging representations of Highland lodging: sleep, however,... | |
 | Edward Burt - Highlands (Scotland) - 1822 - 568 pages
...talking of eating. " When I had been conducted to my lodgingroom, I found the curtains of my bed * were * Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose,...elegant recital concurred to disgust us. We had been frightened by a lady at Edinburgh, with discouraging representations of Highland lodging : sleep, however,... | |
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Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge. 
