| Mabel E. Wotton - Authors, English - 1887 - 376 pages
...compared himself to a spider, and, by another, is described as protuberant behind and before. He is said to have been beautiful in his infancy ; but he was of a constitution originally feeble and weak ; and, as bodies of a tender frame are easily distorted, his... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 480 pages
...compared himself to a spider, and by another is described as protuberant behind and before. He is said to have been beautiful in his infancy ; but he was of a constitution originally feeble and weak ; and as bodies of a 1 Ruffhead's Pope, p. 547. tender frame... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 pages
...compared himself to a spider, and by another is described as protuberant behind and before. He is said to have been beautiful in his infancy ; but he was of a constitution originally feeble and weak : and, as bodies of a tender frame are easily distorted, his... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 pages
...compared himself to a spider, and by another is described as protuberant behind and before. He is said to have been beautiful in his infancy ; but he was of a constitution originally feeble and weak : and, as bodies of a tender frame are easily distorted, his... | |
| Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - Authors, English - 1909 - 694 pages
...compared himself to a spider, and by another is described as protuberant behind and before. He is said to have been beautiful in his infancy; but he was of a constitution originally feeble and weak; and as bodies of a tender frame are easily distorted, his... | |
| Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 616 pages
...admitted to familiarity with those whose rank or station made them most conspicuous. . . . He is said to have been beautiful in his infancy ; but he was of a constitution originally feeble and weak ; and as bodies of a tender frame are easily distorted, his... | |
| Barrett Harper Clark - Biography - 1928 - 1452 pages
...compared himself to a spider, and by another is described as protuberant behind and before. He is said to have been beautiful in his infancy; but he was of a constitution originally feeble and weak; and. as bodies of a tender frame are easily distorted, his... | |
| Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages
...range of Johnson's references become more and more inclusive, from the observation that "He is said to have been beautiful in his infancy; but he was of a constitution originally feeble and weak" (para. 155), to the recognition that "The indulgence and accommodation... | |
| Barbara Murphy, Estelle M. Rankin - Study Aids - 2007 - 306 pages
...compared himself to a spider and, by another, is described as protuberant behind and before. He is said to have been beautiful in his infancy, but he was of a constitution feeble and weak. As bodies of a tender frame are easily distorted, his deformity was probably... | |
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