| James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pàgines
...homely accommodation of ' King Bob,' and roared and laughed till the ruins echoed. Lady Eglintoune, though she was now in her eighty-fifth year, and had lived in the retirement of the country for almost half a century, was still a very agreeable woman. She was of the... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 496 pàgines
...homely accommodation of " King Bob" and roared and laughed till the ruins echoed. Lady Eglintoune, though she was now in her eighty-fifth year, and had lived in the retirement of the country for almost half a century, was still a very agreeable woman. She was of the... | |
| James Boswell - 1810 - 438 pàgines
...homely accommodation of " King Bob," and roared and laughed till the ruins echoed. Lady Eglintoune, though she was now in her eighty-fifth year, and had lived in the retirement of the country for almost half a century, was still a very agreeable woman. She was of the... | |
| James Boswell - 1813 - 492 pàgines
...Eglintoune, though she was now in her eighty-fifth year, and had lived in the retirement of the country for almost half a century, was still a very agreeable...house of Kennedy, and had all the elevation which the consciousness of such birth inspires. Her figure was majestick, her manners high-bred, her reading... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1825 - 330 pàgines
...extremely proud. Boswell's account of the interview is interesting. — " Lady Eglintoune," says he, " though she was now in her eighty-fifth year, and had...half a century, was still a very agreeable woman. Her figure was majestick — her manners high-bred — her reading extensive — and her conversation... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - 586 pàgines
...homely accommodation of " King Hob" and roared and laughed till the ruins echoed. Lady Eglintoune, though she was now in her eighty-fifth year, and had lived in the retirement of the country for almost half a century, was still a very agreeable woman. She was of the... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - 690 pàgines
...homely accommodation of " King Bob" and roared and laughed till the ruins echoed. Lady Eglintoune, though she was now in her eighty-fifth year, and had lived in the retirement of the country for almost half a century, was still a very agreeable woman. She was of the... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1832 - 470 pàgines
...vivacity, and little reason to accuse time of depredations on her beauty.'" * • * * * " Lady Eglintoune, though she was now in her eighty-fifth year, and had lived in the retirement of the country for almost half a century, was still a very agreeable woman. She was of the... | |
| James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pàgines
...homely accommodation of " King Bob," and roared and laughed till the ruins echoed. Lady Eglintoune, though she was now in her eighty-fifth year, and had lived in the retirement of the country for almost half a century, was still a very agreeable woman. She was of the... | |
| Walter Scott - 1833 - 484 pàgines
...vivacity, and little reason to accuse time of depredations on her beauty.' " # *" # * # " Lady Eglintoune, though she was now in her eighty-fifth year, and had lived in the retirement of the country for almost half a century, was still a very agreeable woman. She was of the... | |
| |