Johnson's Life of London by Boris Johnson

Author:Boris Johnson
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781101585689
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2012-05-31T04:00:00+00:00

The information confounded him still more; he had some difficulty to restrain himself, and taking up a book, sat upon a window-seat and read. . . . The cheering sound of ‘Dinner is on the table’, dissolved his reverie, and we all sat down without any symptom of ill humour. . . . Mr Wilkes placed himself next to Dr Johnson, and behaved to him with so much attention and politeness that he gained upon him sensibly. No man eat more heartily than Johnson, or loved better what was nice and delicate. Mr Wilkes was very assiduous in helping him to some fine veal. ‘Pray give me leave, Sir:—It is better here—A little of the Brown—Some fat, Sir—A little of the stuffing—Some gravy—Let me have the pleasure of giving you some butter—Allow me to recommend a squeeze of this orange; or the lemon, perhaps, may have more zest’.—‘Sir, Sir, I am obliged to you, Sir’, cried Johnson, bowing and turning his head to him with a look for some time of ‘surly virtue’, but in a short while, of complacency.

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