 | John Forster - 1855 - 528 pages
...with him Mr. Mickle, translator of the Lusiad, and author of the ballad of Cumnor Hall. ' ' Goldsmith was not at home ; but having a curiosity to " see his apartment we went in, and found curioiis scraps of " descriptions of animals, scrawled upon the wall with a black-lead " pencil." Seeing... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 pages
...to see him at his country lodging in April, 1772. He was not at home, but they entered his apartment and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals scrawled upon the wall with a black-lead pencil. Buffon was his principal storehouse for facts, and much of the work is an avowed... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1856 - 424 pages
...in which the Spectator appeared to his landlady and her children : he was the gentleman. Mr. Mickle, the translator of ' The Lusiad,' and I, went to visit...was not at home ; but having a curiosity to see his apartments, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals, scrawled upon the wall... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1856 - 414 pages
...in which the Spectator appeared to his landlady and her children : he was the gentleman. Mr. Mickle, the translator of ' The Lusiad,' and I, went to visit...was not at home ; but having a curiosity to see his apartments, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals, scrawled upon the wall... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 336 pages
...in which the Spectator appeared to his landlady and her children ; he was The Gentleman. Mr. Micklc, the translator of the Lusiad, and I went to visit him at this place a few days afterward. He was not at home ; but, having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...which the Spectator appeared to his landlady and her children : he was The Gentleman. Mr. Alickle ', d, encumbers him with help? The notici.' 3 which you...pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had witli a black-lead pencil. The subject of ghosts being introduced, Johnson repeated what he had told... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1913 - 872 pages
...House farm, ' he was not at home ; but having a curiosity ' — when was Boswell without one ? — ' we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals scrawled upon the wall with a blacklead pencil.' Among them Boswell may have found some definition of a parasite, or some stinging... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pages
...which the Spectator appeared to his landlady and her children: he was The Gentleman. Mr. Mickle ', the translator of " The Lusiad," and I, went to visit him at tins place a few days afterwards. He was not at home ; but, having a curiosity to see his apartment,... | |
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Road, and had carried down his books in two returned postchaises. He said he believed the farmer's family thought him an odd character, similar to that in which the Spectator appeared to his landlady and her children : he was the gentleman. Mr. Mickle,... 
