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 - 1852 - 744 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Helen Deutsch - 2005 - 337 páginas
...enduring ghostly double. We can see it, at its most sentimental, in Thomas Macaulay's fantasy vision: In the foreground is that strange figure which is...disease, 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... | |
 | 1865 - 866 páginas
...There 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...the brown coat ; the black worsted stockings ; the dirty hands ; the nails bitten and pared to the quick ; that remarkable man, whose fate it was to be... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1925 - 784 páginas
...There are 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...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... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1866 - 834 páginas
...and the tall thin form of Lang352 Clubs. 353 ton ; the courtly sneer of Beauclerk, the beaming Kmilo of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box, and Sir...gigantic body, the huge massy face seamed with the sears uf diseuse, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig with the scorched foretop,... | |
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