 | 1834 - 692 pages
...drank tea at Sir Joshua's with Dr. Johnson. Hannah is certainly a great favorite. She was placed next him, and they had the entire conversation to themselves. They were both it remarkably high spirits ; it was certainly her lucky night ! I neter heard her say so many good... | |
 | William Roberts - 1835 - 512 pages
...drank tea at Sir Joshua's, with Dr. Johnson. Hannah is certainly a great favourite. She was placed next him, and they had the entire conversation to themselves....extremely jocular, and the young one very pleasant. Yon would have imagined we had been at some comedy had you heard our peals of laughter. They, indeed,... | |
 | 1835 - 424 pages
...drank tea at Sir Joshua's, with Dr. Johnson. Hannah is certainly a great favorite. She was placed next him, and they had the entire conversation to themselves....her lucky night ! I never heard her say so many good * We copy with pleasure the following note by Mr. Roberts of this excellent lady. And this we do from... | |
 | William Roberts - 1835 - 496 pages
...drank tea at Sir Joshua's, with Dr. Johnson. Hannah is certainly a great favourite. She was placed next him, and they had the entire conversation to themselves....remarkably high spirits; it was certainly her lucky night ! 1 never heard her say so many good things. The old genius was extremely jocular, and the young one... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1835 - 422 pages
...girl, who found herself suddenly introduced to the choicest society of the metropolis." — Vol. ip 37. things. The old genius was extremely jocular, and the young one very pleasant.' " — Vol. ip 40. Again, the same sister writes ; "' If a wedding should take place before our return,... | |
 | Helen Cross Knight - 1862 - 298 pages
...drank tea at Sir Joshua's, with Dr. Johnson. Hannah is certainly a great favorite. She was placed next him, and they had the entire conversation to themselves....imagined we had been at some comedy, had you heard our peala of laughter. They indeed tried which could 'pepper the highest,' and it is not clear to me that... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie, Tom Taylor - 1865 - 676 pages
...tea at Sir Joshua's with Dr. Johnson : " Hannah is certainly a great favourite ; she was placed next him, and they had the entire conversation to themselves....jocular, and the young one very pleasant. You would have thought we had been at some comedy, had you heard our peals of laughter." Happy young country-ladies... | |
 | 1871 - 660 pages
...drank tea at Sir Joshua's, with Dr. Johnson. Hannah is certainly a great favorite. She was placed next him, and they had the entire conversation to themselves. They were both in remarkable high spirits — it was certainly her lucky isn.] night. I never heard her say so many good... | |
 | Helen Cross Knight - 1872 - 302 pages
...drank tea at Sir Joshua's, with Dr. Johnson. Hannah is certainly a great favorite. She was placed next him, and they had the entire conversation to themselves....spirits^ it was certainly her lucky night. I never heard her-say so many good things. The old genius was extremely jocular, and the young one very pleasant.... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 pages
...placed next to Johnson and had him entirely to herself. "They were both," writes her sister Sarah, " in remarkably high spirits; it was certainly her lucky...night! I never heard her say so many good things. The old'genius was extremely jocular, and the young one very pleasant. You would have imagined we had been... | |
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Tuesday evening we drank tea at Sir Joshua's with Dr. Johnson. Hannah is certainly a great favourite. She was placed next him, and they had the entire conversation to themselves. They were both in remarkably high spirits ; it was certainly her lucky night... 
