 | William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 strani
...prevailed ; still he tapped his snuff-box ; still he smirked and smiled, and rounded his periods with the same air of good breeding as if he were conversing...His mouth, mellifluous as Plato's, was a round hole in the centre nearly of his visage.1 — Colman. As to Gibbon I have read a part of his third volume.... | |
 | 1883 - 836 strani
...snuff-box, still he smirked and smiled, and rounded his periods with the same air of good-breeding, as if he were conversing with men. His mouth, mellifluous...a round hole nearly in the centre of his visage." (Quoted in Croker's Be1swell.) Now and then he even joins in a masquerade, "the finest thing ever seen,"... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 strani
...snuff-box ; still he smirked and smiled, and rounded his periods with the same air of good-breeding, as if he were conversing with men. His mouth, mellifluous...a round hole nearly in the centre of his visage." Vol. i., p. 121. — Croker. 1 Mr. Samuel Sharpe, a surgeon, who had travelled for his health, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 strani
...snuff-box ; still he smirked and smiled, and rounded his periods with the same air of good-breeding, as if he were conversing with men. His mouth, mellifluous...a round hole nearly in the centre of his visage." Vol. i., p. 121.—Croker. 1 Mr. Samuel Sharpe, a surgeon, who had travelled for his health, and whose... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 436 strani
...snuff-box ; still he smirked and smiled, and rounded his periods with the same air of good-breeding, as if he were conversing with men. His mouth, mellifluous...a round hole nearly in the centre of his visage." Vol. ip i2i.— CROKER.] 1 It may be observed, that Mr. Malone, in his very valuable edition of Shakspeare,... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 strani
...neatly dressed. He had a disproportionately large head, and "his mouth," writes Colman, "melifluous as Plato's, was a round hole nearly in the centre of his visage." His moral character seems to have been stainless. He was a dutiful son, and a tender and generous friend.... | |
 | Mabel E. Wotton - 1887 - 376 strani
...snuff-box, still he smirked and smiled, and rounded his periods with the same air of good-breeding, as if he were conversing with men. His mouth, mellifluous...a round hole nearly in the centre of his visage." " M. Pavilliard has described to me the astonishment with which he gazed on Mr. Gibbon standing before... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 492 strani
...snuff-box ; still he smirked, and smiled, and rounded his periods with the same air of good-breeding, as if he were conversing with men. His mouth, mellifluous...a round hole, nearly in the centre of his visage.' Random Records, \. 121. ' I read (said he,) Sharpe's letters on Italy over again, when I was at Bath.... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 strani
...snuff-box ; still he smirked, and smiled, and rounded his periods with the same air of good-breeding, as if he were conversing with men. His mouth, mellifluous...a round hole, nearly in the centre of his visage." Random Records, i. 121. 1 1 read Two notes on HAMLET. ' I read (said he,) Sharpc's letters on Italy... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 440 strani
...early on the morning of the i5th of January 1794. In person Gibbon was stout and grotesquely hideous; "his mouth, mellifluous as Plato's, was a round hole nearly in the centre of his visage." Shy and hesitating among strangers and those who were indifferent to him, he shone as a talker in the... | |
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... evening to talk with me ; the great historian was light and playful, suiting his matter to the capacity of the boy ; but it was done more... 
