 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1775 - 400 pages
...• 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... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1775 - 552 pages
...'. 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...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... | |
 | John Knox - Fisheries - 1787 - 566 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1800 - 302 pages
...bread, no eggs, no wine. We fKd not express much satisfaction, Hefe, We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of the beds, on which we were to repose,...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 - Biography - 1801 - 432 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1806 - 360 pages
...and who could be recommended to him only by their necessities. We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of the beds, on which we were to repose,...entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge. Other circumstances of no elegant recital concurred to disgust us. We had been frighted by a lady at... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Great Britain - 1809 - 378 pages
...and who could be recommended to him only by their necessities. We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of the beds, on which we were to repose,...entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge. Other circumstances of no elegant recital concurred to disgust ns. We had been frighted by a lady at... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pages
...and who could be recommended to him only by their necessities. We were now to examine our lodging. Out of one of the beds, on which we were to repose,...entrance, a man black as a Cyclops from the forge. Other circumstances of no elegant recital concurred to disgust us. We had been frighted by a lady at... | |
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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. 
