| 1828 - 722 páginas
...agriculturists who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce gudeman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. His conversation expressed perfect self-confidence, without the slightest presumption. Among the men... | |
| Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - 734 páginas
...agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce gudeman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. His conversation expressed perfect self-confidence, without the slightest presumption. Among the men... | |
| 1828 - 268 páginas
...agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce gitdcman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. His conversation expressed perfect self-confidence, without the slightest presumption. Among the men... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1828 - 324 páginas
...agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce giideman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. His conversation expressed perfect self-confidence, without the slightest presumption. Among the men... | |
| 1830 - 472 páginas
...agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce gudeman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments; the eye alone, 1 think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which... | |
| 1835 - 842 páginas
...strong and robust: his manners rustic, not clownish, a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...when he spoke with feeling or interest." "I never saw another such eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. His conversation... | |
| Robert Burns - 1834 - 420 páginas
...dark night, because they were first seen of any part of the Poet. — " I never saw," said Scott, " such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time." In his ordinary moods, Burns looked a man of a hundred ; but when animated in company, he was a man... | |
| Silas Jones - 1836 - 348 páginas
...uncommonly interesting and expressive. He was very muscular, and possessed extraordinary strength of body.1 Sir Walter Scott, who had the fortune to see Burns,...though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time.1 Independently of temperament and expression, however, there is a sufficiency of direct evidence... | |
| 1836 - 802 páginas
...the poetical character and tfrm[>çr3(iiçht. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed, (1 sny literally glowed,) when he spoke with feeling or interest." "I never saw another such tye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. His conversation... | |
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