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" ... approach to me, somewhat in the manner of an actor in the part of Horatio, when he addresses Hamlet on the appearance of his father's ghost,  "
The life of Samuel Johnson - Page 183
by James Boswell - 1820
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...having perceived him, through the glass door in the room in which we were sitting, advancing toward us, he announced his awful approach to me, somewhat in...portrait of him painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds soon after he had published his Dictionary, in the attitude of sitting in his easy chair in deep meditation; which...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...having perceived him, through the glass door in the room in which we were sitting, advancing toward us, he announced his awful approach to me, somewhat in...portrait of him painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds soon after he had published his Dictionary, in the attitude of sitting in his easy chair in deep meditation; which...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 pages
...having perceived him, through the glass door in the room in which we were sitting, advancing toward us, he announced his awful approach to me, somewhat in...portrait of him painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds soon after he had published his Dictionary, in the attitude of sitting in his easy chair in deep meditation ;...
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An Anthology of Modern English Prose (1741 to 1892)

Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1911 - 488 pages
...perceived him through the glass door in the room in which we were sitting, advancing towards us—he announced his awful approach to me, somewhat in the...portrait of him painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds soon after he had published his Dictionary, in the attitude of sitting in his easy chair, in deep meditation;...
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Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London

Arthur St. John Adcock - 1912 - 412 pages
...he made of it on the very day of its occurrence : — which we were sitting, advancing towards us, he announced his awful approach to me, somewhat in...portrait of him painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds soon after he had published his Dictionary, in the attitude of sitting in his easy-chair in deep meditation. Mr....
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Selections from Boswell's Life of Johnson

James Boswell - 1912 - 106 pages
...perceived him through the glass door in the room in which we were sitting, advancing towards us, — he announced his awful approach to me, somewhat in...portrait of him painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds soon after he had published his Dictionary, in the attitude of sitting in his easychair in deep meditation; which...
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Boswell, the Biographer

George Mallory - 1912 - 364 pages
...glass-door in the room in which we were sitting, advancing towards us, — he announced his aweful approach to me, somewhat in the manner of an actor...appearance of his father's ghost, ' Look, my Lord, it comes . . .' to give a warning to Davies, and the latter maliciously said the one thing he had been asked...
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The Posthumous Essays of John Churton Collins

John Churton Collins - 1912 - 310 pages
...— he announced his awful approach to me somewhat in the manner of * Boswell's " Life of Johnson." an actor in the part of Horatio when he addresses...appearance of his father's ghost, " Look, my Lord, it comes ! " . . . Mr. Davies mentioned my name and respectfully introduced me to him. I was much agitated,...
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Dr. Johnson and His Circle

John Cann Bailey - 1913 - 276 pages
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Boswell's Johnson: The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell - 1923 - 372 pages
...perceived him through the glass-door in the room in which we were sitting, advancing towards us, — he announced his awful approach to me, somewhat in...portrait of him painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds soon after he had published his Dictionary, in the attitude of sitting in his easy chair in deep meditation ;...
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