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...There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box...with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black * It is proper to observe that this passage bears a very close resemblance to a passage in the Rambler...

...Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk, and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snufi-box, and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the...disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig with the scorched fore-top, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see...

...followed in Boswell's steps '. So, through Boswell's unrivalled work, we see, in Macaulay's (qv) words, ' the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the grey wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see...

...thin form of Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon topping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his...is as familiar to us as the figures of those among who we have brought up, the gigantic body, the hugh massy face, seemed with the scars of disease, the...

...deserves attention, what is important for Macaulay is not so much what Johnson says as who is saying it: "the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the -44 black worsted stockings, the grey wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten...

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...author as grotesque tableau, a gaze become by the nineteenth century almost childishly sentimental: In the foreground is that strange figure which is...disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see...

...There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box...disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see...

...There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box...disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see...