Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed.
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 258.
He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.[460:3]
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 259.
You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 261.
Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanilla of society.
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 262.
My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 262.