| Elisha Jarrett Lewis - Firearms - 1857 - 530 pages
...a rechercM supper beneath his attention ; for we are informed by Boswell, his biographer, that " he never knew a man who relished good eating more than he did; and when at table he was wholly absorbed in the business of the moment." The doctor himself says, in... | |
| Hester Lynch Piozzi - Authors, English - 1861 - 406 pages
...hungry is not easy to explain, for his every day manner of eating was that of a half-famished man. When at table, he was totally absorbed in the business of the moment ; his looks were riveted to his plate, till he had satisfied his appetite ; which was indulged with... | |
| Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 410 pages
...hungry is not easy to explain, for his every day manner of eating was that of a half-famished man. When at table, he was totally absorbed in the business of the moment ; his looks were riveted to his plate, till he had satisfied his appetite ; which was indulged with... | |
| George Oliver - 1867 - 412 pages
...who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else." '• 1 never knew," adds Boswell, " any man who relished good eating more than he did. When...was totally absorbed in the business of the moment ; his looks seemed riveted to his plate ; nor would he say one word, or even pay the least attention... | |
| James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...considered as casting the balance of his different opinions upon this subject ; for I never knew any man who relished good eating more than he did. When...was totally absorbed in the business of the moment ; his looks seemed rivetted to his plate ; nor would he, unless when in very high company, say one... | |
| George Birkbeck Norman Hill - Authors, English - 1878 - 374 pages
..."he throws his meat anywhere but down his throat.'" He certainly was not the man to scatter his food. '^When at table he was totally absorbed in the business of the moment ; his looks seemed riveted to his plate.' No man, moreover, was less open than Johnson to the charge... | |
| Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 pages
...resolution not to respire till he had closed the sentence. — Miss Reynolds (abridged). TABLE MANNERS. — When at table he was totally absorbed in the business of the moment : his looks seemed riveted to his plate ; nor would he, unless when in very high company, say one word,... | |
| 1879 - 348 pages
...resolution not to respire till he had closed the sentence.—Miss Reynolds (abridged). TABLE MANNERS.—When at table he was totally absorbed in the business of the moment: his looks seemed riveted to his plate; nor would he, unless when in very high company, say one word,... | |
| Addison Peale Russell - English literature - 1883 - 378 pages
...research and eloquence " of the paper. It is easy for us to see him, as he has been described to us, at table. He was totally absorbed in the business of the moment ; his looks seemed riveted to his plate ; nor would he, unless in very high company, say. one word,... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 742 pages
...considered as casting the balance of his different opinions upon this subject ; for I never knew any man who relished good eating more than he did. When...was totally absorbed in the business of the moment : his looks seemed rivetted to his plate ; nor would he, unless when in very high company, say one... | |
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