...biographers, notes with wonder this art of his of " distilling honey from the weed " :—" About everything that he wrote, serious or sportive, there was a certain...whose life had been passed among thieves and beggars, street - walkers and merry andrews, in those squalid dens which are the reproach of great capitals."...

...humour rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness. 5 About everything that he wrote, serious or sportive, there was a certain...passed among thieves and beggars, streetwalkers and merry andrews, in those squalid densio which are the reproach of great capitals. As his name gradually...

...his humor rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness. About everything that he wrote, serious or sportive, there was a certain natural grace and decorum, hardly to be expected [320 from a man a great part of whose life had been passed among thieves and beggars, street-walkers...

...great part of whose life had been passed among thieves and beggars, street-walkers and merry and re ws, in those squalid dens which are the reproach of great capitals. ' As his name gradually became known, thecircleof hisacquaintantc widened. He was introduced to Johnson, who was then considered as the lirsi...

...his humour rich and joyous, yet not without an occasional tinge of amiable sadness. About everything that he wrote, serious or sportive, there was a certain...passed among thieves and beggars, streetwalkers and merry andrews, in those squalid dens which are the reproach of great capitals. As his name gradually...