...that he wore Hue stockingsSuch was the excellence of his conversation, that his absence was felt as so great a loss that it used to be said, ' We can do nothing without the blue stockings' Thus by degrees the title became established." At times the great lexicographer himself would be induced...

...that he wore blue stockings. Such was the excellence of his conversation, that his absence was felt as so great a loss, that it used to be said, " we can do nothing without the blue stocking ;" and thus by degrees the title was established. Miss Hannah Moore's Bas Slue ; Boswell's...

...that he wore blue stockings. Such was the excellence of his conversation, that his absence was felt as so great a loss, that it used to be said, ' We can do nothing without the blue stocking*-' and thus by degrees the title was established." Fanny Burney relates how one day at Bath...