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
 | 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
...There are 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...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
...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...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... | |
 | William Hall Griffin - 1897 - 410 páginas
...of Beanclerk and the beaming (mile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with ais trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange...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... | |
 | William Hall Griffin - 1897 - 408 páginas
...of Beauelerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with ais trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange...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... | |
 | William Hall Griffin - 1897 - 406 páginas
...Life of .Byron, 1844,699. ' " t Macaulay, Biogi iphies for the Encydop, Sritannica : Samuel Johnam, which is as familiar to us as the figures of those...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 202 páginas
...There are 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 236 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...black worsted stockings, the gray wig with a scorched foretop ; the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and mouth moving... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 690 páginas
...passage in the Rambler (No. 20). The resemblance may possibly be the effect of unconscious plagiarism. Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his...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... | |
 | John Scott Clark - 1898 - 910 páginas
...arduous enterprises and fortitude not to be shaken by reverses or dangers." — History of England. " In the foreground is that strange figure which is...huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease ; tlje brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with a scorched foretop ; the dirty hands,... | |
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