 At my aunt Ford's I eat so much of a boiled leg of mutton, that she used to talk of it. My mother, who had lived in a narrow sphere, and was then affected by little things, told me seriously that it would hardly ever be forgotten.  The Western Literary Messenger - Side 191847Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 158 sider
...drink, very peevish, very proud, very ostentatious, but, luckily, not rich. At my aunt Ford's I eat so much of a boiled leg of mutton, that she used to talk of it. My mother, who had lived in a narrow sphere, and was then affected by little things, told me -seriously that it would... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 498 sider
...with a whip which had a rattle, and wrote of it to his mother ; and that on a visit to his aunt he ate so much of a boiled leg of mutton, that she used to talk of it, and his mother said it would hardly ever be forgotten. After a few more details of what they read at... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 644 sider
...but, luckily, not rich." (What a complete portrait does this one sentence present !) At my aunt Ford's I ate so much of a boiled leg of mutton, that she used to talk of it. My mother, who had lived in a narrow sphere, and was then affected by little tilings, told me seriously that it would... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 sider
...drink ; very peevish, very proud, very ostentatious, but, luckily, not rich. At my aunt Ford's I eat so much of a boiled leg of mutton ', that she used to talk of it. My mother, who had lived in a narrow sphere, and was then affected by little things, told me seriously that it would... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 sider
...drink ; very peevish, very proud, very ostentatious, but, luckily, not rich. At my aunt Ford's I eat so much of a boiled leg of mutton ', that she used to talk of it. My mother, who had lived in a narrow sphere, and was then affected by little things, told me seriously that it would... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 650 sider
...but, luckily, not rich." (What a complete portrait does this one sentence present !) At my aunt Ford's I ate so much of a boiled leg of mutton, that she used to talk of it. My mother, who had lived in a narrow sphere, and was then affected by little tilings, told me seriously that it would... | |
 | 1835 - 466 sider
...drink, very peevish, very proud, very ostentatious, but, luckily, not rich. At my aunt Ford's I eat so much of a boiled leg of mutton,* that she used to talk of it. My mother, who had lived in a narrow sphere, and was then affected by little things, told me seriously that it would... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 sider
...mutton (1), that she used to talk of it. My mother, who had lived in a narrow sphere, and was then affected by little things, told me seriously that it would hardly ever be forgotten. Her mind, I think, was afterwards much enlarged, or greater evils wore out the care of less. I stayed... | |
 | 1847 - 650 sider
...Johnson to new honey and clouted cream, of which he ate so largely, that his entertainer became alarmed. All his lifetime Dr. Johnson had a voracious attachment...seriously that it would hardly ever be forgotten." Eryden. writing in 1699 to a lady, declining her invitation to a handsome supper, says, " If beggars... | |
 | 1847 - 606 sider
...that his entertainer became alarmed. АЛ his lifetime Dr. Johnson had a voracious attachment fora leg of mutton. " At my aunt Ford's," says he, " I...would hardly ever be forgotten." Dryden, writing in 1699 to a lady, declining her invitation to a bandsome supper, says: "If beggars might be choosers,... | |
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