 Cellars he got home as he could to Essex Court, where he had chambers over the late Mr. Baron Gurney, whose slumbers were a good deal disturbed by the habits of his learned neighbour. On one occasion he was awakened by a tremendous thump upon the floor...  Cambridge Essays, 1855-58 - الصفحة 1051857عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Robert Chambers - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 846
...kennel. He seemed highly flattered by the compliment paid him by one of his Cider-Cellar associates : ' Dick can beat us all, he can drink all night, and spout all day.' The memory of this singular man was prodigious, extending not only to classical literature, but to... | |
 | 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 620
...considered the following the highest compliment he ever received. ' Dick,' said some tavern Bardolph, ' can beat us all : he can drink all night and spout all ' day.' But he was shy and constrained, ' until after the opera' tion of the second ' bottle, at more civilised... | |
 | 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...Cider Cellars, where he was completely king of his company. " Dick," said one of these companions, " can beat us all ; he can drink all night and spout all day." From the Cider Cellars he got home as he could to Essex Court, where he had chambers over the late... | |
 | 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...Cider Cellars, where he was completely king of his company. " Dick," said one of these companions, " can beat us all ; he can drink all night and spout all day." From the Cider Cellars he got home as he could to Essex Court, where he had chambers over the late... | |
 | John Selby Watson - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 490
...greatly pleased with the encomium pronounced upon him by one of his companions at the Cider Cellar : " Dick can beat us all ; he can drink all night, and spout all day."f In 1798 Dr. Burney was meditating an edition of Terentianus Maurus, and mentioned, in a letter... | |
 | John Timbs - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 340
...Cider Cellar, where he was completely king of his company. " Dick," said one of these companions, " can beat us all ; he can drink all night, and spout all day." From the Cider Cellar he got home as he could to Essex Court, where he had chambers over the late Mr.... | |
 | 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...Cider Cellars, where he was completely king of his company. " Dick," said one of theae companions, " can beat us all; he can drink all night and spout all day." From the Cider Cellars he got home as he could to Essex Court, where he had chambers over the late... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 646
...till eight o'clock next morning. One of his companions here is said to have shouted before Porson, " Dick can beat us all : he can drink all night, and spout all day," which greatly pleased the Professor. We remember the place not many years after Porson's death, when... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 296
...received was that of some drinking companion at the Cider Cellars. " Dick," said this tavern Bardolph, " can beat us all ; he can drink all night and spout all day." The blackest account of Porson's intemperance is given in a letter of Byron to Murray, written in 1818.... | |
 | Richard Valpy French - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...his nightly haunt. It was there that one of his companions is said to have shouted in his presence, ' Dick can beat us all ; he can drink all night and spout all day.' This sounds bad, but it must be remembered that Porson had struggled long on the then miserable pittance... | |
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