 | Henry Francis Cary - 1846 - 564 pages
...You are the occasion of this, my dear." It is said by Boswell, that " his temperament was so morbid, that he never knew the natural joy of a free and vigorous use of his limbs : when he walked, it was the struggling gait of one in fetters ; when he rode, he had no command or direction of his horse,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 pages
...of organs, that his visual perceptions, as far as they extended, were uncommonly quick and accurate. So morbid was his temperament that he never knew the...of his horse, but was carried as if in a balloon. That with his constitution and habits of life he should have lived seventyfive years, is a proof that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 192 pages
...organs, that his visual perceptions, as far as they extended, were un-' commonly quick and accurate. So morbid was his temperament, that he never knew...of his horse, but was carried as if in a balloon. That with his constitution and habits of life he should have lived seventy-five years, is a proof that... | |
 | Literature - 1878 - 638 pages
...of organs, that his visual perceptions, as far as they extended, were uncommonly quick and accurate. So morbid was his temperament that he never knew the...of his horse, but was carried as if in a balloon. That with his constitution and habits of life he should have lived seventy five years, is a proof that... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 pages
...of organs, that his visual perceptions, as far as they extended, were uncommonly quick and accurate. So morbid was his temperament that he never knew the...of his horse, but was carried as if in a balloon. That with his constitution and habits of life he should have lived seventy-five years, is a proof that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 626 pages
...of organs, that his visual perceptions, as far as they extended, were uncommonly quick and accurate. So morbid was his temperament, that he never knew...of his horse, but was carried as if in a balloon. That with his constitution and habits of life he should have lived seventy-five years, is a proof that... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 652 pages
...organs, that his visual perceptions, as far as they extended, were uncommonly quick and accurate'. So morbid was his temperament, that he never knew...direction of his horse, but was carried as if in a balloon 3. That with his constitution and habits of life he should have lived seventy-five years, is a proof... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 pages
...of organs, that his visual perceptions, as far as they extended, were uncommonly quick and accurate. So morbid was his temperament, that he never knew...of his horse, but was carried as if in a balloon. That with his constitution and habits of life he should have lived seventyfive years, is a proof that... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 590 pages
...of organs, that his visual perceptions, as far as they extended, were uncommonly quick and accurate. So morbid was his temperament, that he never knew...command or direction of his horse, but was carried on as if in a balloon. — Life of Johnson. THE MENTAL AND MORAL CHARACTER OF JOHNSON. He was prone... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 556 pages
...of organs, that his visual perceptions, as far as they extended, were uncommonly quick and accurate. So morbid was his temperament, that he never knew...of his horse, but was carried as if in a balloon. That with his constitution and habits of life he should have lived seventy-five years, is a proof that... | |
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So morbid was his temperament, that he never knew the natural joy of a free and vigorous use of his limbs : when he walked, it was like the struggling gait of one in fetters ; when he rode, he had no command or direction of his horse, but was carried... 
