Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, the gigantic... Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Página 151por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 744 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1887 - 514 páginas
...the spectacles of Hurkc and the tall, thin form of l-angton, the courtly sneer of Keauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box...brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig wilh the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. \Vc see the eyes... | |
| Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 páginas
...the spectacles of Burke and the tall, thin form of Langten, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk, and the / sears of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig with the scorched foretop,... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1890 - 240 páginas
...are the spectacles of Burke, and the tall thin form of Langton ; the courtly sneer of Beauclerk, the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box,...; the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig with the scorched foretop ; the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1890 - 1100 páginas
...Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange ugure which ¡3 as familiar to ua that purpose, the Prince of Orange would ever have...suppose, knew their own meaning ; and, if we may grey wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see... | |
| 1891 - 780 páginas
...the spectacles of Burke ; and the tall, thin form of Langton; the courtly sneer of Beauclerk, and the beaming smile of Garrick ; Gibbon tapping his snuff-box...we have been brought up — the gigantic body, the large, massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 934 páginas
...form of Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk, and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tap. ping tion into public life, his earldom, his garter, and...Swift, but for the unconquerable prejudice of the grey wig with the scorched foretop, the lirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 934 páginas
...are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk and the ackintosh turned over Thomas Aquinas to verify a quotation...of Austerlitz. They will remember, above all, the grey wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, * Tt is proper to observe that this passage bears... | |
| William Henry Craig - 1895 - 300 páginas
...who think about him at all. Lord Macaulay has drawn the picture for us in his own masterly way — " In the foreground is that strange figure which is...coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 270 páginas
...the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Laugton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk, and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box,...the foreground is that strange figure which is as 5 familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, the gigantic body, the... | |
| Truman Jay Backus - 1897 - 510 páginas
...are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerc and the beaming smile of Garrick ; Gibbon, tapping his snuff-box,...coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes aud... | |
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