 | Thomas Hitchcock - 1891 - 274 páginas
...man in England." Mrs. Porter, whom he married, remarked after her first interview with him : "Mr. J. is the most sensible man that I ever saw in my life." Mrs. Kitty Clive, the famous actress, said : " I love to sit by Dr. Johnson; he always entertains me."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 páginas
...1794-'' BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON conversation that she overlooked all these external disadvantages, and "6 1900 Sands & co."! Boswell James" James Boswell( Though Mrs Porter was double the age of Johnson," and her person and manner, as described to me by... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 páginas
...was so much engaged by his-^conversation that she overlooked all these external disadvantages, and said to her daughter, "this is the most sensible man that I ever saw in my life." f 1735.] Though Mrs. Porter was double the age of Johnson,1 and her person and manners, as described... | |
 | Whitwell Elwin - 1902 - 574 páginas
...powers of his mind, and not by the disadvantages of his person. " This," she remarked to her daughter, " is the most sensible man that I ever saw in my life." 1 His comparative youth, and intellectual endowments, his admiration of her matronly figure, bloated... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 146 páginas
...Johnson's " very forbidding " appearance, Mrs. Porter recognized his sterling merit at once, and observed to her daughter, " This is the most sensible man that I ever saw in my life." They were married July 9, 1735, when Mrs. Porter was forty-six and Johnson nearly twenty-six. Macaulay's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 páginas
...Porter was so much engaged by his conversation that she overlooked all these external disadvantages, and ry silent. He said, ' Burnet's History of his own times i Though Mrs. Porter was double the age of Johnson l, and her person and manner, as described to me by... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 páginas
...Porter was so much engaged by his conversation that she overlooked all these external disadvantages, and said to her daughter, "this is the most sensible man that I ever saw in my life." Though Mrs. Porter was double the age of Johnson, and her person and manner, as described to me by... | |
 | Sydney Castle Roberts - 1919 - 210 páginas
...Porter was so much engaged by his conversation that she overlooked all these external disadvantages and said to her daughter, 'this is the most sensible man that I ever saw in my life.' " "I know not" Boswe.ll goes on "for what reason the marriage ceremony was not performed at Birmingham... | |
 | James Boswell - 1923 - 372 páginas
...Porter was so much engaged by his conversation that she overlooked all these external disadvantages, and said to her daughter, "this is the most sensible man that I ever saw in my life." Though Mrs. Porter was double the age of Johnson, and her person and manner, as described to me by... | |
 | James Boswell - 1925 - 104 páginas
...Porter was so much engaged by his conversation that she overlooked all these external disadvantages, and said to her daughter, " this is the most sensible man that I ever saw in my life." Though Mrs. Porter was double the age of 1. 44 Johnson. ' <L «) I know not for what reason the marriage... | |
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... hair, which was straight and stiff, and separated behind ; and he often had, seemingly, convulsive starts and odd gesticulations, which tended to excite at once surprise and ridicule. Mrs. Porter was so much engaged by his conversation that she overlooked... 
