 | James Boswell - Readers - 1916 - 370 pages
...me, that when he was first introduced to her mother, his appearance was very forbidding : he was then lean and lank, so that his immense structure of bones...was straight and stiff, and separated behind; and he often had, seemingly, convulsive starts and odd gesticulations, which tended to excite at once surprise... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - Authors, English - 1918 - 186 pages
...Boswell, "when he was first introduced to her mother his appearance was very forbidding ; he was then lean and lank, so that his immense structure of bones...and the scars of the scrofula were deeply visible," while " he often had, seemingly, convulsive starts and odd gesticulations, which tended to excite at... | |
 | Sydney Castle Roberts - Authors, English - 1919 - 210 pages
...was Johnson. When he was firstintroduced to her, " his appearance was very forbidding ; he was then lean and lank, so that his immense structure of bones...hideously striking to the eye, and the scars of the scrophula were deeply visible. He also wore his hair, which was straight and stiff, and separated behind... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1923 - 176 pages
...her. " It was," he said, " a love match on both sides." Johnson is described as being at this time " lean and lank, so that his immense structure of bones...and the scars of the scrofula were deeply visible." His wife was twenty years his senior, and according to David Garrick, " her swelled cheeks were of... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1923 - 372 pages
...me that when he was first introduced to her mother his appearance was very forbidding: he was then lean and lank, so that his immense structure of bones...hideously striking to the eye, and the scars of the scrophula were deeply visible. He also wore his hair, which was straight and stiff, and separated behind:... | |
 | George William McClelland - English literature - 1925 - 1178 pages
...me, that when he was first introduced to her mother, his appearance was very forbidding: he was then 1 surpassing J pilgrim 1 a flowi •belt 'ing cloa often had, seemingly, convulsive starts and odd gesticulations, which tended to excite at once surprise... | |
 | James Boswell - Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 - 1925 - 104 pages
...was first 1.43 introduced to her mother, his appearance was very ( I. 94-95) forbidding : He was then lean and lank, so that his immense structure of bones...hideously striking to the eye, and the scars of the scrophula were deeply visible. He also wore his hair, which was straight and stiff, and separated behind;... | |
 | James Boswell - Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 - 1925 - 102 pages
...that his immense structure of bones was hideously striking to the eye, and the scars of the scrophula were deeply visible. He also wore his hair, which...was straight and stiff, and separated behind; and he often had, seemingly, convulsive starts and odd gesticulations, which tended to ezcite at once surprise... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 670 pages
...me, that when he was first introduced to her mother, his appearance was very forbidding : he was then lean and lank, so that his immense structure of bones...hideously striking to the eye, and the scars of the scrophula were deeply visible. He also wore his hair, which was straight and stiff, and separated behind... | |
 | Robert Anderson - College readers - 696 pages
...admiration of each other's mind. Johnson's appearance is described as being very forbidding f. " He was then lean and lank; so that his immense structure of bones was hideously striking to * She had a son and daughter ; the former a captain in the navy, from whom his sister inherited a handsome... | |
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Porter told me, that when he was first introduced to her mother, his appearance was very forbidding: he was then lean and lank, so that his immense structure of bones was hideously striking to the eye, and the scars of the scrofula were deeply visible. 
