 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1812 - 562 pages
...family of her brother-in-law, and probably amused herself with the uncouth adorations of the learned, though dirty stripling, whose mean appearance was...Porter, whose visit to Lichfield had been but for a lew weeks, was then gone back to her parents at Birmingham, and the brighter Molly Aston became the... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 440 pages
...ambered flames,' through constitutional melancholy and spleen. Lucy Porter, whose visit to Litchneld had been but for a few weeks, was then gone back to...length with ideal love, and incapable of inspiring mutua inclinations in the young and lively, he married, at twenty-three, the mother of his Lucy, and... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 418 pages
...family of her brother-in-law, and probably amused herself with the uncouth adorations of the learned, though dirty, stripling, whose mean appearance was...and knowledge that blazed through him ; though with s ambered flames,' through constitutional melancholy and spleen. Lucy Porter, whose visit to Litchneld... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 460 pages
...brother-in-law, and probably amused herself with the uncouth adorations of the learned, though dirty stripling. Lucy Porter, whose visit to Lichfield had been but...brighter Molly Aston became the Laura of our Petrarch. 498. Mrs. Cobb. (2) Poor Moll Cobb, as Dr. Johnson used to call her, is gone to her long home. Johnson... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 402 pages
...brother-in-law, and probably amused herself with the uncouth adorations of the learned, though dirty stripling. Lucy Porter, whose visit to Lichfield had been but...brighter Molly Aston became the Laura of our Petrarch. 498. Mrs. CM. (*) Poor Moll Cobb, as Dr. Johnson used to call her, is gone to her long home. Johnson... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...dirty stripling. Lucy Porter, whose visit to Lich field had been but for a few weeks, was then gbne back to her parents at Birmingham, and the brighter Molly Aston became the Laura of our Petrarch. (1) [Mr. Boswcll declined to insert this account in his Life of Johnson. He had, no doubt, seen much... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 546 pages
...brotherin-law, and probably amused herself with the uncouth adorations of the learned, though dirty stripling. Lucy Porter, whose visit to Lichfield had been but...brighter Molly Aston became the Laura of our Petrarch. (*) [Mr. Boswell declined to insert this account in the Life of Johnson. He had, no doubt, seen much... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 544 pages
...brotherin-law, and probably amused herself with the uncouth adorations of the learned, though dirty stripling. Lucy Porter, whose visit to Lichfield had been but...brighter Molly Aston became the Laura of our Petrarch. (*) [Mr. Boswell declined to insert this account in the Life of Johnson. He had, no doubt, seen much... | |
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imp their eagle wings," a delighted spectator and auditor of their efforts. It was here, that Miss Molly Aston was frequently a visitor in the family of her brother-in-law, and probably amused herself with the uncouth adorations of the... 