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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... "
Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Página 151
por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 744 páginas
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Literary Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 824 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...body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of 1 It is proper to observe that this passage bears a very close resemblance to a passage in the Rambler...
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Masters of English Literature

Edwin Watts Chubb - 1914 - 488 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...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...
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Famous Reviews

Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1914 - 552 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...with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black * It is proper to observe that this passage bears a very close resemblance to a passage in the Rambler...
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Readings in English Prose of the Nineteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 716 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...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...
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The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1925 - 826 páginas
...Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk, and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snufi-box, and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the...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...
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Main Currents of English Literature: A Brief Literary History of the English ...

Percy Hazen Houston - 1926 - 548 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...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...
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Manners of Interpretation: The Ends of Argument in Literary Studies

Miguel Tamen - 1993 - 240 páginas
...thin form of Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon topping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his...is as familiar to us as the figures of those among who we have brought up, the gigantic body, the hugh massy face, seemed with the scars of disease, the...
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Defects: Engendering the Modern Body

Helen Deutsch, Felicity Nussbaum - 2000 - 348 páginas
...author as grotesque tableau, a gaze become by the nineteenth century almost childishly sentimental: 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...
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Polemic: Critical Or Uncritical

Jane Gallop - 2004 - 228 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 foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see...
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Loving Dr. Johnson

Helen Deutsch - 2005 - 337 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 foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see...
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