 | James Boswell - 1907 - 628 страници
...eye, and the scap of the scrofula were deeply visible. He also wore his hair, which was straight arid stiff, and separated behind : and he often had, seemingly, convulsive starts and (Kid gesticulations, which tended to excite at once surprise and ridicule. Mrs. Porter was so From... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Hughes - 1911 - 788 страници
...his bones was hideously striking to the eye, and the scars of his scrofula were deeply visible, . . . and he often had, seemingly, convulsive starts and odd gesticulations which tended to one's surprise and ridicule." We must be glad that Mrs. Porter overlooked these physical defects in... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - 1914 - 488 страници
...and the scars of scrofula were deeply visible. He also wore his hair, which was straight and stiff, separated behind; and he often had seemingly convulsive...which tended to excite at once surprise and ridicule." That the marriage of two such persons would end in unhappiness would be the natural inference, but... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1918 - 186 страници
...bones was hideously striking to the eye, and the scars of the scrofula were deeply visible," while " he often had, seemingly, convulsive starts and odd...which tended to excite at once surprise and ridicule." On the other hand, the mature Elizabeth Porter was scarcely the woman, one would have supposed, to... | |
 | Sydney Castle Roberts - 1919 - 210 страници
...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...odd gesticulations, which tended to excite at once surprize and ridicule. Mrs Porter was so much engaged by his conversation that she overlooked all these... | |
 | James Boswell - 1925 - 104 страници
...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;...once surprise and ridicule. Mrs. Porter was so much (12) engaged by his conversation that she overlooked all these external disadvantages, and said to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1925 - 102 страници
...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;...convulsive starts and odd gesticulations, which tended to ezcite at once surprise and ridicule. Mrs. Porter was so much (12) engaged by his conversation that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 670 страници
...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 : and he often had, seemingly, convulsive starts 3nd odd gesticulations, which tended to excite at once surprise and ridicule. Mrs. Porter was so much... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 страници
...him. BISHOP PERCY. the eye, and the scars of the scrophula were deeply visible. He also wore his hair, which was straight and stiff, and separated behind...convulsive starts and odd gesticulations, which tended at once to excite surprise and ridicule." Mrs Porter was double the age of Johnson, and her person... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 страници
...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;...odd gesticulations, which tended to excite at once surprize and ridicule." How Johnson himself lek in society is expressed in his own sad commentary on... | |
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... were deeply visible. He also wore his hair, which was straight and stiff", and separated behind ; and he often had, seemingly, convulsive starts and odd gesticulations, which tended to excite at once surprise and ridicule. 
