| Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 664 ページ
...headach, which he used to relieve by inhaling the steam of coffee, which he very frequently required. Most of what can be told concerning his petty peculiarities was communicated by a female domestick of the Earl of Oxford, who knew him perhaps after the middle of life. He was then so weak... | |
| Francis Cotterell Hodgson - 1913 - 464 ページ
...never able to dress or undress himself. Johnson quotes from a communication of " a female domestick of the Earl of Oxford, who knew him perhaps after the middle of life." 2 " He was so weak as to stand in perpetual need of female attendance ; extremely sensible of cold,... | |
| Barrett Harper Clark - 1928 - 1452 ページ
...which he used to relieve by inhaling the steam of coffee, which he v. iv frequently required. Most of what can be told concerning his petty peculiarities was communicated by a female domestic of the Earl of Oxford, who knew him perh;i|>s after the middle of life. He was then so weak... | |
| Helen Deutsch - 1996 - 300 ページ
...to raise his seat. But his face was not displeasing, and his eyes were animated and vivid . . . Most of what can be told concerning his petty peculiarities was communicated by a female domestic of the Earl of Oxford, who knew him perhaps after the middle of life. He was then so weak... | |
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