 Then collecting himself, and looking awful, to make us feel how he could impose restraint, and as it were searching his mind for a still more ludicrous word, he slowly pronounced, "I say the woman was fundamentally sensible;" as if he had said, hear this...  The life of Samuel Johnson - Página 774por James Boswell - 1817Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 548 páginas
...behind a lady's back who sate on the same settee with her. His pride could not bear that any expression of his should excite ridicule, when he did not intend...it ; he therefore resolved to assume and exercise despotick power, glanced sternly around, and called out in a strong tone, "Where's the merriment ?"... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1912 - 316 páginas
...behind a lady's back who sat on the same settee with her. His pride could not bear that any expression of his should excite ridicule when he did not intend...therefore resolved to assume and exercise despotic power, and glanced sternly around, and called out in a strong tone : ' Where's the merriment?' Then, collecting... | |
 | George Mallory - 1912 - 364 páginas
...behind a lady's back who sat on the same settee with her. His pride could not bear that any expression of his should excite ridicule, when he did not intend...it ; he therefore resolved to assume and exercise despotick power, glanced sternly around, and called out in a strong tone, ' Where's the merriment ?... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1916 - 428 páginas
...resolved to assume and exercise despotick power, glanced sternly around, and called out in a strong [216] tone, 'Where's the merriment?' Then collecting himself,...ludicrous word, he slowly pronounced, 'I say the woman was fundamentally sensible;' as if he had said, hear this now, and laugh if you dare. We all sat composed... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1916 - 440 páginas
...behind a lady's back who sat on the same settee with her. His pride could not bear that any expression of his should excite ridicule, when he did not intend it; he therefore resolved to assume and exercise despotick power, glanced sternly around, and called out in a strong tone, 'Where's the merriment?'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1923 - 372 páginas
...behind a lady's back who sat on the same settee with her. His pride could not bear that any expression of his should excite ridicule, when he did not intend...ludicrous word, he slowly pronounced, "I say the woman was fundamentally sensible;" as if he had said, hear this now, and laugh if you dare. We all sat composed... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 páginas
...sense," and thereby excited the hilarity of his audience, " His pride could not bear that any expression of his should excite ridicule when he did not intend...it ; he therefore resolved to assume and exercise despotick power, glanced sternly around, and called out in a strong tone, ' Where's the merriment ?... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 páginas
...behind a lady's back who sat on the same settee with her. His pride could not bear that any expression of his should excite ridicule, when he did not intend...ludicrous word, he slowly pronounced, "I say the woman was -fundamentally sensible"; as if he had said, hear this now, and laugh if you dare. We all sat composed... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 páginas
...behind a lady's back who sat on the same settee with her. His pride could not bear that any expression of his should excite ridicule, when he did not intend...more ludicrous word, he slowly pronounced, "I say the •n'oman was fundamentally sensible"; as if he had said, hear this now, and laugh if you dare. We... | |
 | Robert Graves - 1927 - 96 páginas
...behind a lady's back who sat on the same settee with her. His pride could not bear that any expression of his should excite ridicule, when he did not intend...it ; he therefore resolved to assume and exercise despotick power, glanced sternly around and called out in a strong tone, "Where's the merriment?" Then... | |
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