 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 394 páginas
...tapping his snuff-box, and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear.2 In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of...disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig with the scorched fore-top, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 640 páginas
...tapping his snuffbox, 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...seamed with the scars of disease, the brown .coat, the blackworsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and... | |
 | Henry Austin Dobson - 1880 - 348 páginas
...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 hare been brought up, the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 600 páginas
...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...stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop; the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and the nose moving with convulsive... | |
 | 1881 - 578 páginas
...tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange joys, those loves, those interests to resign ; Taught half by reason, half grey wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see... | |
 | Girls - 1881 - 390 páginas
...' Rasselas ' ! But in Boswell's pages he is presented to us in the manner in which he lived. We see the gigantic body, the huge massy face seamed with...disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig with the scorched fore-top, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 602 páginas
...tapping his snuff-box, and tílr Joshua with hie trumpet in his car. 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, — tin- gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the »cars of disease; the brown coat, the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 878 páginas
...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...stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and mouth moving with convulsive... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1882 - 608 páginas
...with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground Is that strange figure which is ns familiar to us'as the figures of those among whom we have been brought...stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop; the dirty hands, the naila bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and the noee moving with convulsive... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 874 páginas
...tapping his snufT-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. I« the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of...whom we have been brought up, the gigantic body, the huq;e massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black. worsted stockings, the... | |
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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... 
