 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 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... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - English literature - 1911 - 488 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...like the struggling gait of one in fetters; when he i ode, he had no command or diiection of his horse, but was carried as if in a balloon. That with his... | |
 | James Boswell - Readers - 1916 - 370 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 - 1923 - 372 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... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - Literary Criticism - 1923 - 438 pages
...the natural joy of a free and vigorous use of his limbs : when he walk'd, it was like the straggling gait of one in fetters ; when he rode, he had no command...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... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 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 a free and vigorous use of his limbs : when he walk'd, it was like the straggling gait of one in fetters ; when he rode, he had no command or direction... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - Literary Criticism - 1923 - 436 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 natural joy of ;i free and vigorous use of his limbs : when he walk'd, it was like the straggling gait of one in fetters... | |
 | Gerald Edwin Se Boyar - American literature - 1925 - 456 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 proof that... | |
 | Ronald Arbuthnott Knox - Satire - 1928 - 296 pages
...distinction between the two pictures, I need only notice that G in II. 614 tells us Johnson " when he rode had no command or direction of his horse, but was carried as if in a balloon " ; yet W has the effrontery to print the words " I told him I had been to see Johnson ride upon three... | |
 | Robert Anderson - College readers - 696 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. At different times he seemed a different man, in some respects ; not, however, in any great or essential... | |
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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... 
