 ... disputations, his contortions, his mutterings, his gruntings, his puffings, his vigorous, acute, and ready eloquence, his sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his insolence, his fits of tempestuous rage, his queer inmates, old Mr Levett and blind Mrs Williams,...  The Works of Lord Macaulay: Critical and historical essays - Page 516by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1875Full view - About this book
 | 1831 - 652 pages
...queer inmates — old Mr Levett and blind Mrs Williams, the cat Hodge, and the Negro Frank, — all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we have...he was known to the men of his own generation, but ns he was known to men whoso father he might have been. That celebrated club of which he was the most... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1839 - 518 pages
...queer inmates— old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the negro Frank — all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood." In 17fi5 the university of Dublin sent over a diploma creating him a doctor of laws, but he did not... | |
 | Periodicals - 1839 - 584 pages
...eloquence ; his sarcastic wit, his vehemence, his insolence, his lits of tempestuous rage; all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood. Bui there has been no BOZWELL to unriddle us MARSH ! He has himself alluded, indeed, to his English... | |
 | 1839 - 518 pages
...queer inmates— old Mr.Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the negro Frank— all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood.' In 1765 the university of Dublin sent over a diploma creating him a doctor of laws, but he did not... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1839 - 524 pages
...queer inmates— old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the negro Frank— all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood.' In 1765 the university of Dublin sent over a diploma creating him a doctor of laws, but he did not... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 336 pages
...queer inmates, old Mr. Levett, and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the negro Frank ; all are as familiar to us, as the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood." In 1766, his constitution being greatly weakened, he look up his residence with Mr. Thrale,* at Streat*... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...queer inmates, old Mr. Levett, and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the negro Frank ; all are as familiar to us, as the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood." In 1766, his constitution being greatly weakened, he took up his residence with Mr. Thrale,* at Streat*... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...queer inmates, (old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge, and the negro Frank,) all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood. Macaulay. 1 and in the enjoyment of a competent fortune, is better known to us, than any other man... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 456 pages
...queer inmates, old Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge and the negro Frank, — all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we have...years of Johnson's life during which his character and Ms manners became immutably fixed. We know him, not as he was known to the men of his own generation,... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...Mr. Levett and blind Mrs. Williams, the cat Hodge and the negro Frank, — all are as familiar to uj> as the objects by which we have been surrounded from...years of Johnson's life during which his character aud his manners became immutably fixed. We know him, not as he was known to the men of his own generation,... | |
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