 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...to us seems ludicrous when applied to a woman of her age and appearance. Mr. Garrick described her to me as very fat, with a bosom of more than ordinary...increased by the liberal use of cordials ; flaring and fantastick in her dress, and affected both in her speech and her general behaviour. I have seen Garrick... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...to us seems ludicrous, when applied to a woman of her age and appearance. Mr. Garrick described her to me as very fat, with a bosom of more than ordinary...increased by the liberal use of cordials ; flaring and fantastick in her dress, and affected both in her speech and her general behaviour. I have seen Garrick... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...to us seems ludicrous when applied to a woman of her age and appearance. Mr. Garrick described her to me as very fat, with a bosom of more than ordinary...increased by the liberal use of cordials ; flaring and fantastick in her dress, and affected both in her speech and her general behaviour. I have seen Garrick... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...was,' he says, ' very fat, with a bosom of more than ordinary protuberance. Her swelled cheeks were of a florid red, produced by thick painting, and increased by the liberal use of cordials ; she was flaring and fantastic in her dress, and affected both in her speech and her general behaviour.'... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...to us seems ludicrous, when applied to a woman of her age and appearance. Mr. Garrick described her to me as very fat, with a bosom of more than ordinary...increased by the liberal use of cordials ; flaring and fantastick in her dress, and affected both in her speech and her general behaviour. I have seen Garrick... | |
 | Robert Anderson - Authors, English - 1815 - 660 pages
...others. " She was very fat, with a bosom of more than ordinary protuberance. Her swelled cheeks were of a florid red, produced by thick painting, and increased...flaring and fantastic in her dress, and affected both in * There was no great cordiality between Garrick and Johnson ; and as the latter kept him much in awe... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...while she (according to Garrick) was very fat, with a bosom of more than ordinary protuberance ; having swelled cheeks of a florid red, produced by thick...in her dress, and affected both in her speech and in her general behaviour." Yet Johnson was susceptible of the tender passion. Miss Molly Aston in particular,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1816 - 154 pages
...was,' he says, ' very fat. with a bosom of more than ordinary protuberance; her swelledL cheeks were of a florid red, produced by thick painting, and increased by the liberal use of cordials; she was flaring and fantastick in her dress, ard affected both in her speech and her general behaviour'... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...to us seems ludicrous, when applied toa woman of her age and appearance. Mr. Garrick describes her to me as very fat, with a bosom of more than ordinary...florid red, produced by thick painting, and increased hy the liberal use of cordials; flaring and fantastic in her dress, and affected both in her speech... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...to ns seems ludicrons, when applied to a woman of her age and appearance. Mr. Garrick describes her to me as very fat, with a bosom of more than ordinary...produced by thick painting, and increased by the liberal nse of cordials; flaring and fantastic in her dress, and affected both in her speech and her general... | |
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Garrick described her to me as very fat, with a bosom of more than ordinary protuberance, with swelled cheeks, of a florid red, produced by thick painting, and increased by the liberal use of cordials ; flaring and fantastic in her dress, and affected... 
