 As we close it the club-room is before us, and the table on which stands the omelet for Nugent, and the lemons for Johnson. There are assembled those heads which live for ever on the canvas of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin...  The London Anecdotes for All Readers ... - 第 98 頁由 編輯 - 1848完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1914 - 552 頁
...least this claim to our gratitude, that he has induced us to read Boswell's book again. As we close it, the club-room is before us, and the table on which...the tall thin form of Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet... | |
 | Edwin Watts Chubb - 1914 - 488 頁
...meeting of the famous club brings vividly before us the group with Johnson as the ruling force : " The club-room is before us, and the table on which...Johnson. There are assembled those heads which live forever on the canvas of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke, and the tall, thin form of Langton,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 716 頁
...— all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood. . . . The club-room is before us, and the table on which...Johnson. There are assembled those heads which live forever on the canvas of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Langton,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 716 頁
...the omelet for Nugent and the lemons for Johnson. There are assembled those heads which live forever on the canvas of Reynolds. There are the spectacles...the tall thin form of Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box, and Sir Joshua with his trumpet... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1925 - 826 頁
...with thee again.' Macaulay in his Essay on Boswell's book says, ' As we close the book the club room is before us, and the table on which stands the omelet for Nugent and the lemons for Johnson.' Nugent was a Roman Catholic and the club met on a Friday, so the omelet is a shrewd touch of Macaulay's.... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1926 - 548 頁
...— all are as familiar to us as the objects by which we have been surrounded from childhood. . . . The club-room is before us, and the table on which...Johnson. There are assembled those heads which live forever on the canvas of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Langton,... | |
 | Miguel Tamen - 1993 - 240 頁
...virtuous uses. In the remarkable last two paragraphs of his essay on Boswell on Johnson, he writes: The club-room is before us, and the table on which...Johnson. There are assembled those heads which live forever in the canvas of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Langton,... | |
 | Jane Gallop - 2004 - 228 頁
...uncritical view of the phantom through the lens of communal nostalgia: As we close [Boswell's book] the clubroom is before us, and the table on which...Johnson. There are assembled those heads which live forever on the canvas of Reynolds. There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Langton,... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - 2005 - 337 頁
...enabled by reading JW Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson: As we close [Boswell's book], the clubroom is before us, and the table on which...the tall thin form of Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1866 - 832 頁
...world, his fastidious taste, and his sarcasticwit The room is before us, and the table on which stand the omelet for Nugent and the lemons for Johnson....the spectacles of Burke, and the tall thin form of Lang352 Clubs. 353 ton ; the courtly sneer of Beauclerk, the beaming Kmilo of Garrick, Gibbon tapping... | |
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