 | James Boswell - 1835 - 402 pages
...nauseous mother ; next, the handsome, but haughty, Molly Aston ; next, the sublimated, methodistic, Hill Boothby, who read her bible in Hebrew ; and, lastly,...the first, the learning of the second, and with more worth than a bushel of such sinners and such saints. It is ridiculously diverting to see the old elephant... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 460 pages
...nauseous mother; next, the handsome, but haughty, Molly Aston; next, the sublimated, methodistic, Hill Boothby, who read her bible in Hebrew ; and, lastly,...the first, the learning of the second, and with more worth than a bushel of such sinners and such saints. It is ridiculously diverting to see the old elephant... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...nauseous mother ; next, the handsome, but haughty, Molly Aston ; next, the sublimated, methodistic, Hill Boothby, who read her bible in Hebrew ; and, lastly,...the first, the learning of the second, and with more worth than a bushel of such sinners and such saints. It is ridiculously diverting to see the old elephant... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 544 pages
...nauseous mother; next, the handsome, but haughty, Molly Aston; next, the sublimated, methodistic, Hill Boothby, who read her bible in Hebrew; and, lastly,...the first, the learning of the second, and with more worth than a bushel of such sinners and such saints. It is ridiculously diverting to see the old elephant... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 546 pages
...nauseous mother; next, the handsome, but haughty, Molly Aston; next, the sublimated, methodistic, Hill Boothby, who read her bible in Hebrew; and, lastly,...the first, the learning of the second, and with more worth than a bushel of such sinners and such saints. It is ridiculously diverting to see the old elephant... | |
 | Anne Katharine Curteis Elwood - Authors, English - 1843 - 368 pages
...handsome but haughty Molly Aston, — next, the sublimated methodistic Hill Boothby, who read her Bible iu Hebrew, — and, lastly, the more charming Mrs. Thrale,...wit than a bushel of such sinners and such saints." The society which was frequently to be found at the hospitable mansion of Mr. Thrale, formed a coterie... | |
 | American periodicals - 1862 - 656 pages
...nauseous mother ; next, the handsome but haughty Molly Aston ; next, the sublimated, methodistic Hill Boothby, who read her Bible in Hebrew ; and lastly,...the first, the learning of the second, and with more worth than a bushel of such sinners and such saints. It is ridiculously diverting to see the old elephant... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 410 pages
...nauseous mother; next the handsome, but haughty, Molly Aston ; next the sublimated, methodistic Hill Boothby, who read her bible in Hebrew; and lastly,...the first, the learning of the second, and with more worth than a bushel of such sinners and such saints. It is ridiculously diverting to see the old elephant... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - Authors, English - 1861 - 406 pages
...nauseous mother ; next the handsome, but haughty, Molly Aston ; next the sublimated, methodistic Hill Boothby, who read her bible in Hebrew ; and lastly,...the first, the learning of the second, and with more worth than a bushel of such sinners and such saints. It is ridiculously diverting to see the old elephant... | |
 | 1861 - 624 pages
...nauseous mother; next, the handsome but haughty Molly Aston ; next, the sublimated, methodistic Hill Boothby, who read her Bible in Hebrew; and, lastly, the more charming Mrs. Thrale, with the talent of the first, the learning of the second, and with more worth than a bushel of such sinners... | |
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Johnson had always a metaphysic passion for one princess or other: first, the rustic Lucy Porter, before he married her nauseous mother; next, the handsome, but haughty, Molly Aston; next, the sublimated, methodistic, Hill Boothby, who read her bible... 
