 Duncan, who had not patience to have a sober chat interrupted by my shouting forth this ditty. Methinks I now see his tall thin emaciated figure, his legs cased in clasped gambadoes, and his face of a length that would have rivalled the Knight of La Mancha's,...  Biographical and Critical Miscellanies - Stran 149avtor: William Hickling Prescott - 1875 - 682 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Robert Walsh - 1837 - 504 strani
...his face of a length that would have rivalled the Knight of La Mancha's, and hear him exclaiming, ' One may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon as where that child is.' With this little acidity, which was natural to him, he was a most excellent and benevolent man, a gentleman... | |
 | 1838 - 728 strani
...His memory was one of the first powers of his mind, which exhibited an extraordinary developement. One of the longest of these old ballads, in particular,...the forms of his profession, and it may be added, indeed, of his religion, which he contrived to make somewhat burdensome to his more volatile son. The... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 422 strani
...his face of a length that would have rivalled the Knight of La Mancha's, and hear him exclaiming, " One may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon as where that child is." With this little acidity, which was natural to him, he was a most excellent and benevolent man, a gentleman... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 426 strani
...his face of a length that would have rivalled the Knight of La Mancha's, and hear him exclaiming, " One may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon as where that child is." With this little acidity, which was natural to him, he was a most excellent and benevolent man, a gentleman... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 612 strani
...his face of a length that would have rivalled the Knight of La Mancha' s, and hear him exclaiming, " One may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon as where that child is." With this little acidity, whicli was natural to him, he Was a most excellent and benevolent man, a... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 428 strani
...his face of a length that would have rivalled the Knight of La Mancha's, and hear him exclaiming, " One may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon as where that child is." With this little aeidity, which was natural to him, he was a most excellent and benevolent man, a gentleman... | |
 | J. D. Bell - 1850 - 488 strani
...fourteen, William Pitt was, "in intellect, a man." Said a clergyman of Walter Scott, when he was a boy, " One may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon, as where that child is." Thomas De Quincey, when but fifteen years old, could converse fluently in Greek. " That boy," said... | |
 | Xavier Donald MacLeod - 1852 - 324 strani
...who used to say when Walter interrupted his sober converse by shouting out the deeds of Hardyknute, " One may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon as where that child is." A good old man the doctor, and had known Pope and other worthies of the age of Queen Anne. Sheep-skins... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - 1853 - 446 strani
...his face of a length that would have rivalled the knight of La Mancha's, and hear him exclaiming, ' one may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon as where this child is.' " But despite this little outbreak, the doctor was a kind and benevolent man, and we... | |
 | 1854 - 870 strani
...pettishly to exclaim, when Walter interrupted his her converse by shouting out his favourite lay, " One may well speak in the mouth of a cannon as where that child ." Sandy Кполте failing to remove the lameness, Walter, ider care of aunt Jenny, was despatched... | |
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