 An ancient clergyman of Dorsetshire, Dr. Wright, found John Milton in a small chamber, hung with rusty green, sitting in an elbow chair, and dressed neatly in black; pale, but not cadaverous ; his hands and fingers gouty, and with chalk-stones.  The New annual register, or General repository of history, politics, and ... - Sivu 431802Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Richard Garnett - 1890 - 264 sivua
...stairs, in a room hung with rusty green " sitting in an elbow chair, black clothes, and neat enough, pale but not cadaverous ; his hands and fingers gouty and with chalk-stones." Gout was the enemy of Milton's latter days ; we have seen that he had begun to suffer from it before... | |
 | Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton - 1891 - 574 sivua
...defend Her son. So fail not thou, who theo implores ; For thou art heavenly, she an empty dream."* "An ancient clergyman of Dorsetshire, Dr. Wright,...small chamber hung with rusty green, sitting in an elbow-chair, and dressed neatly in black; pale, but not cadaverous. ... He used also to sit in a gray... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - 1892 - 550 sivua
...Hospital and Peerless Pool. It was on the west side of Bunhill Row, not very far from Chiswell Street. An ancient clergyman of Dorsetshire, Dr. Wright, found...in a small chamber hung with rusty green, sitting hi an elbow-chair, and dressed neatly in black ; pale but not „. ' • , Richaidson'8 cadaverous... | |
 | Hugh Norris, Charles Herbert Mayo, Frederic William Weaver - 1893 - 418 sivua
...statement. " Richardson has left the following sketch of Milton's figure at an advanced period of life. ' An ancient clergyman of Dorsetshire, Dr. Wright, found...pale but not cadaverous, his hands and fingers gouty with chalk stones.' " Who was this ancient Dorset clergyman ? J. CROSS. 311. NICHOLAS DRUET, RECTOR... | |
 | Horace - 1896 - 680 sivua
...31. no^-Qga : gout produces chalk-stones in the fingers, as with Milton, who in his later years was ' pale but not cadaverous, his hands and fingers gouty and^ with chalk-stones' : cf. S. 2. 7. 15 cheragra \.contudit articulos. corpus prohibere cheragra : for the construction of... | |
 | 1900 - 570 sivua
...a neighbouring street, preserves the remembrance of the poet's connexion with the locality. Here " an ancient clergyman of Dorsetshire, Dr. Wright, found...small chamber, hung with rusty green, sitting in an elbow-chair, and dressed neatly in black ; pale, but not cadaverous, his hands and fingers gouty and... | |
 | Mark Pattison - 1901 - 232 sivua
...a neighbouring street, preserves the remembrance of the poet's connexion with the locality. Here " an ancient clergyman of Dorsetshire, Dr. Wright, found...small chamber, hung with rusty green, sitting in an elbow-chair, and dressed neatly in black ; pale, but not cadaverous, his hands and fingers gouty and... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1901 - 412 sivua
...finished his 'Paradise Lost,' and there he died, November 8, 1674, in a house long since destroyed. ' An ancient clergyman of Dorsetshire, Dr. Wright, found...small chamber hung with rusty green, sitting in an elbow-chair, and dressed neatly in black ; pale, but not cadaverous ; his hands and fingers gouty,... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1902 - 440 sivua
...defend Her son. So fail not thou, who thee implores ; For thou art heav'nly, she an empty dream." 1 " An ancient clergyman of Dorsetshire, Dr. Wright, found...small chamber hung with rusty green, sitting in an elbow-chair, and dressed neatly in black: pale, but not cadaverous." " He used also to sit in a grey... | |
 | John Milton - 1902 - 124 sivua
...John Milton, then growing old, in a small chamber2 hung with rusty green, sitting in an elbow-chair and dressed neatly in black ; pale, but not cadaverous...and fingers gouty, and with chalk-stones. He used to sit in a gray coarse cloth coat at the door of his house near Bunhill Fields in warm weather, to... | |
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