...breasts. ' His appearance,' said his step-daughter, Miss Porter, ' was then very forbidding ; he was lean and lank, so that his immense structure of bones was hideously striking to the eve, and the scars of the scrofula were deeply visible. His hair was straight and stiff and separated...

...by Johnson, when he became the fervent admirer of Mrs. Porter, after her first husband's death. Miss Porter told me, that when he was first introduced...the scrofula were deeply visible. He also wore his hair, which was straight and stiff", and separated behind ; and he often had, seemingly, convulsive...

...is described as being exceedingly forbidding : he was then, as Miss Porter described him to Boswell, lean and lank, so that his immense structure of bones...the scrofula were deeply visible. He also wore his -hair, which was straight and stiff, separated behind ; and he had seemingly convulsive starts and...

...Johnson, when he became the fervent admirer of Airs. Porter, after her first husband's death. JMiss Porter told me, that when he was first introduced...was very forbidding: he was then lean and lank, so tint his immense structure of bones was hideously striking to the eye, and the scars of the scrofula...

...by Johnson, when he became the fervent admirer of Mrs. Porter, after her first husband's death. Miss Porter told me, that when he was first introduced...appearance was very forbidding : he was then lean willing to be convinced of her errors. Surely it would be more ingenuous to acknowledge than to persevere....

...sincerity of a more graceful lover. The daughter of this lady says, that, when Johnson first called upon her mother, his appearance was very forbidding. "...was hideously striking to the eye, and the scars of scrofula were deeply visible. He also wore his hair stiff and straight, and parted behind, and he often...

...daughter describes him at this time as of a very forbidding appearance, his structure of bones being "hideously striking to the eye, and the scars of the scrofula were deeply visible." We may add, and awkward gestures, which excited ridicule. Fearful that she might marry him for his...

...whom I bought my clothes Л the fervent admirer of Mrs. Porter, after her first husband's death.1 Miss Porter told me, that when he was first introduced to her mother, his appearance was very forbidding ; ho was then lean and lank, so that his immense structure of bones was hideously striking to the eye,...

...by Johnson, when he became the fervent admirer of Mrs. Porter, after her first husband's death. Miss Porter told me, that when he was first introduced...hideously striking to the eye, and the scars of the scrophula were deeply visible. He also wore his hair, which was straight and stiff, and separated behind...

...Samuel Johnson, the lexicographer, as a type of this class. Boswell tells us that even in early life " his immense structure of bones was hideously striking...and the scars of the scrofula were deeply visible." These external characters are accompanied by a weak, irritable, and imperfect digestion, a feeble circulation,...