| 1873 - 592 strani
...1775 — General Washington having just assumed command of the army at Cambridge — Mrs. Adams says : "I was struck with General Washington. You had prepared...gentleman and soldier, look agreeably blended in him. Modesty marks every line and feature of his face. "Thoie lines of D:yJe;i instantly occurred to me... | |
| John Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1875 - 474 strani
...able to come, upon account of expresses which they were on that day to get in readiness to send off. I was struck with General Washington. You had prepared...gentleman and soldier, look agreeably blended in him. Modesty marks every line and feature of his face. Those lines of Dryden instantly occurred to me :... | |
| John Adams, Abigail Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1875 - 474 strani
...able to come, upon account o* expresses which they were on that day to get in readinett a »eud off. I was struck with General Washington. You had prepared...the gentleman and soldier, look agreeably blended ;.n him. Modesty marks every line and feature of his face. Those lines of Dryden instantly occurred... | |
| Horace Elisha Scudder - 1876 - 350 strani
...account of expresses which they were on that day to get in readiness to send off. I was struck with Gen. Washington. You had prepared me to entertain a favorable...gentleman and soldier, look agreeably blended in him. Modesty marks every line and feature of his face. Those lines of Dryden instantly occurred to me :... | |
| Samuel Eliot - 1879 - 424 strani
...able to come, upon account of expresses which they were on that day to get in readiness to send off. I was struck with General Washington. You had prepared...gentleman and soldier, look agreeably blended in him. Modesty marks every line and feature of his face. Those lines of Drydcn instantly occurred to me :... | |
| John Robert Irelan - 1886 - 536 strani
...abilities, but you know the continuation of the popular breath depends much upon favorable events. . . . "I was struck with General Washington. You had prepared...Dignity with ease and complacency, the gentleman and the soldier, look agreeably blended in him. Modesty marks every line and feature of his face. . . .... | |
| Lydia L. Gordon - 1889 - 508 strani
...statesman, it is pleasant to note the favorable impression he made upon a woman like Mrs. Adams. " I was struck with General Washington. You had prepared...opinion of him, but I thought the half was not told me." A quotation hoarded up in her mind, slips from her lips, — "Mark his ma|estic fabric; he's a temple... | |
| Elizabeth Bryant Johnston - 1895 - 270 strani
...candles, in tall silver candlesticks, stood at the box door until the illustrious guest was seated. "Dignity with ease and complacency, the gentleman and soldier look agreeably blended in him. Modesty marks every line and feature of his face. These lines of Dryden instantly oc' ""' ' " ""''... | |
| George Otto Trevelyan - 1898 - 458 strani
...presence. " I was struck with General Washington," wrote Mrs. Adams to her husband. " You had prepared me, but I thought the half was not told me. Dignity, with ease and complacency, the gentleman and the soldier, look agreeably blended in him. Modesty marks every line and feature of his face." On grounds... | |
| Geraldine Brooks - 1900 - 324 strani
...interested in the messenger as in her letter and writes enthusiastically of him to her husband — " I was struck with General Washington. You had prepared...Dignity with ease and complacency, the gentleman and the soldier look agreeably blended in him. Modesty marks every line and feature of his face." With... | |
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