 As we close it the club-room is before us, and the table on which stands the omelet for Nugent, and the lemons for Johnson. There are assembled those heads which live for ever on the canvas of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin...  The London Anecdotes for All Readers ... - Page 98edited by - 1848Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...physician, was Burke's father-in-law. Macaulay (Essays, i. 407) says: — 'As we close Boswell's book, the club-room is before us, and the table on which...the omelet for Nugent, and the lemons for Johnson.' It was from Mrs. Piozzi that Macaulay tearnt of the omelet. Nugent was a Roman Catholic, and it was... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...physician, was Burke's father-in-law. Macaulay (Essays, i. 407) says: — 'As we close Boswell's book, the club-room is before us, and the table on which...the omelet for Nugent, and the lemons for Johnson.' It was from Mrs. Piozzi that Macaulay learnt of the omelet. Nugent was a Roman Catholic, and it was... | |
 | 1831 - 652 pages
...least this claim to our gratitude, that he has induced us to read Boswell's book again. As we close it, the club-room is before us, and the table on which...are assembled those heads which live for ever on the canvass of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke, and the tall thin form of Langton ; the courtly... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - 1838 - 702 pages
...the great lexicographer, to the very letter. ' As we close this book,' say the Edinburgh reviewers, ' the club-room is before us, and the table on which...assembled those heads, which live for ever on the canvass of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke, and the tall thin form of Langten ; the courtly... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 512 pages
...least this claim to our gratitude, that he has induced us to read Boswell's book again. As we close it, the club-room is before us, and the table on which...Johnson. There are assembled those heads which live forever on the canvass of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke, and the tall thin form of Laugton... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 pages
...Nugent, and the lemons for Johnson. There are assembled those heads which live forever on the canvass of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke, and the tall thin form of Langton ; the courtly saeer of Beauclerk, and the beaming smile of Garrick; Gibbon tapping his snuffbox, and Sir Joshua with... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - 1843 - 776 pages
...the great lexicographer, to the very letter. ' As we close this book,' say the Edinburgh reviewers, ' the club-room is before us, and the table on which...assembled those heads, which live for ever on the canvass of Keynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke; and the tall thin form of Laiiglon ; the courtly... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...least this claim to our gratitude, that he has induced us to read Boswell's book again. As we close it, the club-room is before us, and the table on which...Johnson. There are assembled those heads which live forever on the canvass of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Langton... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 pages
...people." "Yes," said he, " and where else will you see such horses and such men?" DR. JOHNSON'S CLUB-ROOM. The club-room is before us, and the table on which...assembled those heads which live for ever on the canvas of Eeynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke, and the tall thin form of Langton ; the courtly sneer... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pages
...this claim to our gratitude, that he has induced us to read Boswell's booic again. As we close it, trong plain words, Anglo-Saxon or Norman French, of which the ome'ei for Nugent and the lemons for Johnson. There are assembled those heads which live forerac on... | |
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