 | Tobias Smollett - 1775 - 552 strani
...'. We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of the beds, on which we were 10 repofe, ftarted up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge. Other circumftances of no elegant recital concurred to difguft us. We had been frighted by a lady at Edinburgh,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1775 - 400 strani
...• We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of the beds, on which we were to repofe, ftarted up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge. Other circumftances of no elegant recital concurred to difguft us. We had been frighted by a lady at Edinburgh,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 strani
...presented to Dr. Johnson and me. The Doctor, in his 'Journey, compares him to a Cyclops. BOSWELL. ' Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose,...entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge.' Works, ix. 44. Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale : — ' When we were taken up stairs, a dirty fellow bounced... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 strani
...neceflities. We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of the beds, on which we were to repofe, ftarted up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge. Other circumftances of no elegant recital concurred to difguft us. We had been frighted by a lady at Edinburgh,... | |
 | John Knox - 1787 - 566 strani
...neceffities. " We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of the beds on which we were to repofe, ftarted up, at our entrance, a man, black as a Cyclops from the forge. Other circumftancesof no elegant recital concurred to difguft us. We had -been fouth entrance of the found,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 302 strani
...Here was no meat, np milk, no bread, no eggs, no wine. We fKd not express much satisfaction, Hefe, We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of...up at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from tlie forge. Other circumstances of no elegant recital concurred to disgust |is. We had been irighted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 432 strani
...nece.fiities. We were now to examine our lodging. Out of pne of the beds, on which we were to repofe, ftarted up> at our entrance, a man black" as a Cyclops from the the forge. Other circumftances of no elegant recital concurred to difguft. us. We had been frighted... | |
 | 1831 - 652 strani
...the ' bed on which one of us was to lie.' This incident is recorded in the Journey as follows : — ' Out of one of the beds on which ' we were to repose,...entrance, a man black * as a Cyclops from the forge.' Sometimes Johnson translated aloud. • The Rehearsal,' he said, very unjustly, • has not wit ' enough... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 360 strani
...company, and the gentleman, whose name, I think, is Gordon, well knowing the penury of the place, had this attention to two men, whose names perhaps he...circumstances of no elegant recital concurred to disgust us. We had been frighted by a lady at Edinburgh, with discouraging representations of Highland lodgings.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 strani
...company, and the gentleman, whose name, I think, is Gordon, well knowing the penury of the place, had this attention to two men, whose names perhaps he...circumstances of no elegant recital concurred to disgust us. We had been frighted by a lady at Edinburgh, with discouraging representations of Highland lodgings.... | |
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Out of one of the beds on which we were to repose started up, at our entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge. 
