 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1878 - 444 pages
...slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his grantings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic...and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge and the negro Prank,— all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood."—... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1879 - 448 pages
...slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his grnntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic...familiar to us as the objects by which we have been rorrounded from childhood."—?'. B. Macaulay. acquainted with a young Scotchman, James Boswell, Esq.,... | |
 | American literature - 1879 - 336 pages
...disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings; his vigorous, acute and hearty eloquence; his sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his insolence,...by which we have been surrounded from childhood." DEATH. In 1783, he was attacked with paralysis, and soon after was swollen with dropsy. His constitutional... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 pages
...slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic...fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates, old Mr. Level and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the negro Frank — all are as familiar to us as... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1880 - 442 pages
...slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntincs, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic...all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we hav» been surrounded from childhood."— TB Macaulay. acquainted with a young Scotchman, James Bos... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic...Williams, the cat Hodge and the negro Frank — all are familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood. 2. Johnson, as Mr. Burke... | |
 | Fifty celebrated men - Biography - 1881 - 360 pages
...slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic...fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates, old Mr. I/evett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the negro Frank, all are as familiar to us as the... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings; his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence ; his sarcastic...insolence, his fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates, shielded by his kindness — old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the negro Frank—... | |
 | Morison - 1882 - 212 pages
...gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his vehement insolence, his fits of tempestuous rage, his queer...Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat, Hodge, and negro Prank— all are as familiar to us as objects by which we have been surrounded from our childhood.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1882 - 1002 pages
...slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutter'mgs, his gruntings, his puffings; his burn, And Spring shall soon her vital influence shed, Again attune the grove, again adorn (its of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates, shielded by his kindness — old Mr. Levctt and blind... | |
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... and veal-pie with plums, his inextinguishable thirst for tea, his trick of touching the posts as he walked, his mysterious practice of treasuring up scraps of orange-peel, his morning slumbers, his midnight disputations, his contortions, his mutterings,... 
