 I remember," says he, in that letter, speaking of Swift, "as I and others were taking with him an evening walk, about a mile out of Dublin, he stopped short; we passed on; but perceiving he did not follow us, I went back, and found him fixed as a statue,...  Journal of Psychological Medicine - Page 3641849Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...about a mile out of Dublin, he stopped short; we passed on ; but perceiving he did not follow us, 1 went back and found him fixed as a statue, and earnestly gazing upward at a noble elm, which in its uppermost branches was much withered and decayed. Pointing at it,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 780 pages
...about a mite out of Dublin, he stopped short : we passed on ; but perceiving he did not follow us, 1 went back and found him fixed as a statue, and earnestly gazing upwards at a noble elm, which, in Us uppermost branches, was much withered and decayed. Pointing at it. he said, • I shall be like... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 pages
...DR 1717,1 we are informed by Dr. Voting, that, while walking with Swift about n mile out of Dublin, the Dean stopped short. "We passed on," says the author...Thoughts, " but perceiving he did not follow us, I wem bnek und lound him fix'td asa statue, and earnestly gazing upward at a noble elm, which, in its... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 pages
...were taking with him an evening walk, about a mile out of Dublin, he stopped short ; we passed on ; but perceiving he did not follow us, I went back,...found him fixed as a statue, and earnestly gazing upward at a noble elm, which in its uppermost branches was much withered and decayed. Pointing at it,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1854 - 692 pages
...evening's walk, about a mile out of Dublin, he stopped short : we passed on ; but, perceiving that he did not follow us, I went back, and found him fixed as a statue, and earnestly gazing upward at a noble elm, which in its uppermost branches was much withered and decayed. Pointing at it,... | |
 | 892 pages
...with some friends ia the neighbourhood of Dublin. " Perceiving he did not follow us," says Young, " I went back and found him fixed as a statue, and earnestly gazing upward at a noblj elm which, in ilia uppermost branches, was much decayed. Pointing at it, he said,... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 356 pages
...mile out of Dublin, the Dean stopped short. ' Perceiving,' Young relates, ' that he did not follow me, I went back and found him fixed as a statue and earnestly gazing upward at a noble elm which in its uppermost branches was much withered and decayed. Pointing" to it,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 422 pages
...Dublin, when the Dean stopped short. The Doctor passed on, and perceiving Swift did not follow, he went back, and found him fixed as a statue, and earnestly gazing upward at a noble elm, which, in its uppermost branches, was much withered and decayed. Pointing at... | |
 | 1903 - 524 pages
...him an evening's walk, about a mile out of Dublin, he stopt short; we passed on; but perceiving that he did not follow us, I went back; and found him fixed as a statue, and earnestly gazing upward at a noble elm, which in its uppermost branches was much withered, and decayed. Pointing at... | |
 | 1903 - 524 pages
...him an evening's walk, about a mile out of Dublin, he stopt short; we passed on; but perceiving that he did not follow us, I went back; and found him fixed as a statue, and earnestly gazing upward at a noble elm, which in its uppermost branches was much withered, and decayed. Pointing at... | |
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