 As we close it the club-room is before us, and the table on which stands the omelet for Nugent, and the lemons for Johnson. There are assembled those heads which live for ever on the canvas of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin...  The London Anecdotes for All Readers ... - Página 98editado por - 1848Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 páginas
...physician, was Burke's father-in-law. Macaulay (Essays, i. 407) says: — 'As we close Boswell's book, the club-room is before us, and the table on which...the omelet for Nugent, and the lemons for Johnson.' It was from Mrs. Piozzi that Macaulay tearnt of the omelet. Nugent was a Roman Catholic, and it was... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 páginas
...physician, was Burke's father-in-law. Macaulay (Essays, i. 407) says: — 'As we close Boswell's book, the club-room is before us, and the table on which...the omelet for Nugent, and the lemons for Johnson.' It was from Mrs. Piozzi that Macaulay learnt of the omelet. Nugent was a Roman Catholic, and it was... | |
 | 1831 - 652 páginas
...least this claim to our gratitude, that he has induced us to read Boswell's book again. As we close it, the club-room is before us, and the table on which...are assembled those heads which live for ever on the canvass of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke, and the tall thin form of Langton ; the courtly... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - 1838 - 702 páginas
...the great lexicographer, to the very letter. ' As we close this book,' say the Edinburgh reviewers, ' the club-room is before us, and the table on which...assembled those heads, which live for ever on the canvass of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke, and the tall thin form of Langten ; the courtly... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 512 páginas
...least this claim to our gratitude, that he has induced us to read Boswell's book again. As we close it, the club-room is before us, and the table on which...Johnson. There are assembled those heads which live forever on the canvass of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke, and the tall thin form of Laugton... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 páginas
...Nugent, and the lemons for Johnson. There are assembled those heads which live forever on the canvass of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke, and the tall thin form of Langton ; the courtly saeer of Beauclerk, and the beaming smile of Garrick; Gibbon tapping his snuffbox, and Sir Joshua with... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - 1843 - 776 páginas
...the great lexicographer, to the very letter. ' As we close this book,' say the Edinburgh reviewers, ' the club-room is before us, and the table on which...assembled those heads, which live for ever on the canvass of Keynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke; and the tall thin form of Laiiglon ; the courtly... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...least this claim to our gratitude, that he has induced us to read Boswell's book again. As we close it, the club-room is before us, and the table on which...Johnson. There are assembled those heads which live forever on the canvass of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Langton... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 páginas
...people." "Yes," said he, " and where else will you see such horses and such men?" DR. JOHNSON'S CLUB-ROOM. The club-room is before us, and the table on which...assembled those heads which live for ever on the canvas of Eeynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke, and the tall thin form of Langton ; the courtly sneer... | |
 | 1852 - 780 páginas
...this claim to our gratitude, that he has induced us to read Boswell's booic again. As we close it, trong plain words, Anglo-Saxon or Norman French, of which the ome'ei for Nugent and the lemons for Johnson. There are assembled those heads which live forerac on... | |
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