| Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 310 pages
...flannel waistcoat. His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pairs of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid ; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and he neither went to bed nor rose without help." This extraordinary necessity... | |
| Richard Robert Madden - 1833 - 214 pages
...flannel waistcoat. His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pairs of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and he neither went to bed nor rose without help." This extraordinary necessity... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pages
...was contracted. His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pair of stockings, ie, Not Cynthia when her manlua's * withdrew And Ariel weepin dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help. His weakness made it very... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...was conracted. His legs were so slender, that ie enlarged their bulk with three pair of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid ; for he was not able to Jress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help. His weakness made it very... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help. His weakness made it very difficult for him to be clean. His hair had fallen almost all away; and he used to dine sometimes with Lord Oxford, privately, in a velvet cap. His dress... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 pages
...was contracted. His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pairs of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help. His weakness made it very... | |
| Richard Stuteley Cobbett - 1872 - 458 pages
...was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help. His weakness made it very difficult for him to be clean. His hair had fallen PERSONAL DESCRIPTION OF POPE. 281 almost all away ; and he used to dine sometimes with Lord Oxford,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...was contracted. His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pair of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid ; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help. His weakness made it very... | |
| Edward Walford - 1884 - 628 pages
...was contracted. His legs were so slender that he enlarged their bulk with three pairs of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid : for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed or rose without help. His weakness made it very difficult... | |
| Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 738 pages
...was contracted. His legs were so slender that he enlarged their bulk with three pairs of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid, for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help. ... In all his intercourse... | |
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