 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pàgines
...polished society. Much has thus been irrecoverably lost. In the course of our conversation this day, it came out, that Lady Eglintoune was married the...to him, that she might have been his mother ; and that she now adopted him ; and when we were going away, she embraced him, saying, ' My dear son, farewell'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 496 pàgines
...polished society. Much has thus been irrecoverably lost. In the course of our conversation this day, it came out, that Lady Eglintoune was married the...to him, that she might have been his mother ; and that she now adopted him ; and when we were going away, she embraced him, saying, " My dear son, farewell... | |
 | James Boswell - 1810 - 438 pàgines
...polished society. Much has thus become irrecoverably lost. In the course of our conversation this day, it came out, that Lady Eglintoune was married the...said to him, that she might have been his mother, and that she now adopted him ; and when we were going away, she embraced him, saying, " My dear son, farewell... | |
 | James Boswell - 1813 - 492 pàgines
...it came out, that Lady Eglintoune was married the year before Dr. Johnson was born ; upon which shd graciously said to him, that she might have been his mother ; and that she now adopted him ; and when we were going away, she embraced him, saying, " My dear son, farewell... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1825 - 330 pàgines
...circles, and the patroness of poets. Dr Johnson was delighted with his reception here. Her principles in church and state were congenial with his. — In...might have been his mother, and she now adopted him. This venerable woman amused herself latterly in taming and patronising rats. She kept a vast number... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 586 pàgines
...polished society. Much has thus been irrecoverably lost. In the course of our conversation this day it came out that Lady Eglintoune was married the year...said to him that she might have been his mother, and that she now adopted him ; and when we were going away, she embraced him, saying, " My dear son, farewell... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 690 pàgines
...polished society. Much has thus been irrecoverably lost. In the course of our conversation this day it came out that Lady Eglintoune was married the year...said to him that she might have been his mother, and that she now adopted him ; and when we were going away, she embraced him, saying, " My dear son, farewell... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1832 - 470 pàgines
...acquaintance of men of talents in every department." ***** " In the course of our conversation this day, it came out that Lady Eglintoune was married the year...said to him, that she might have been his mother, and that she now adopted him ; and when we were going away, she embraced him, saying, ' My dear son, farewell... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 484 pàgines
...acquaintance of men of talents in every department." # # * * # " In the course of our conversation this day, it came out that Lady Eglintoune was married the year...said to him, that she might have been his mother, and that she now adopted him ; and when we were going away, she embraced him, saying, ' My dear son, farewell... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pàgines
...polished society. Much has thus been irrecoverably lost. In the course of our conversation this day it came out that Lady Eglintoune was married the year...said to him that she might have been his mother, and that she now adopted him; and when we were going away, she embraced him, saying, " My dear son, farewell... | |
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In the course of our conversation this day it came out that Lady Eglintoune was married the year before Dr. Johnson was born; upon which she graciously said to him that she might have been his mother, and that she now adopted him; and when we were going... 
