 ... forgotten. His name at once calls up before us a slender and feeble frame, a lofty and ample forehead, a nose curved like the beak of an eagle, an eye rivalling that of an eagle in brightness and keenness, a thoughtful and somewhat sullen brow, a...  Littell's Living Age - Seite 4101849Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
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...brightness and keenness, a thoughtful and somewhat sullen brow, a firm and somewhat peevish inoutli, a check pale, thin, and deeply furrowed by sickness and by...pensive, severe, and solemn aspect could scarcely bave belonged to a happy or a good-humoured man. But it indicates, in a manner not to be mistaken,... | |
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...an eye rivaling that of an eagle in brightness and keenness, a thoughtful and somewhat sullen brow, a firm and somewhat peevish mouth, a cheek pale, thin,...Nature had largely endowed William with the qualities * The chief materials from which I have taken my description of the Prince of Orange will be found... | |
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...an eye rivalling that of an eagle in brightness and keenness, a thoughtful and somewhat sullen brow, a firm and somewhat peevish mouth, a cheek pale, thin,...aspect could scarcely have belonged to a happy or a goodhumoured man. But it indicates in a manner not to be mistaken capacity equal to the most arduous... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 456 Seiten
...an eye rivalling that of an eagle in brightness and keenness, a thoughtful and somewhat sullen brow, a firm and somewhat peevish mouth, a cheek pale, thin,...aspect could scarcely have belonged to a happy or a goodhumoured man. But it indicates in a manner not to be mistaken capacity equal to the most arduous... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 742 Seiten
...care. That pensive, severe, and solemn aspect could scarcely have belonged to a happy or a goodhumoured man. But it indicates in a manner not to be mistaken capacity equal to the most arduous en* The chief materials from which I have taken my description of the Prince of Orange will be found... | |
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...an eye rivalling that of an eagle in brightness and keenness, a thoughtful and somewhat sullen brow, a firm and somewhat peevish mouth, a cheek pale, thin, and deeply furrowed by sickuess and by care. That pensive, severe, imd solemn aspect could scarcely have belonged to a happy... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 824 Seiten
...which the Duke of Portland permitted Sir James Mackintosh to take a copy. j, History. 111. * CHAP. in a manner not to be mistaken capacity equal to the most )687' — arduous enterprises, and fortitude not to be shaken by reverses or dangers. m» eany Nature... | |
 | William]. Archer - 1852 - 168 Seiten
...of an eagle, in brightness and keenness; a thoughtful, and somewhat sullen brow ; a firm and curved mouth ; a cheek pale. thin, and deeply furrowed by...aspect could scarcely have belonged to a happy or a good-humoured man. But it indicates in a manner not to be mistaken, capacity equal to the most arduous... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 552 Seiten
...an eye rivalling that of an eagle in brightness and keenness, a thoughtful and somewhat sullen brow, a firm and somewhat peevish mouth, a cheek pale, thin,...aspect could scarcely have belonged to a happy or^ a goodhumoured man. But it indicates in a manner not to be mistaken capacity equal to the most arduous... | |
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...eye rivalling that of an eagle in brightneee and keenness, a thoughtful, and somewhat sullen brow, a firm and somewhat peevish mouth, a cheek pale, thin,...aspect could scarcely have belonged to a happy or good-humoured man ; but it indicates in a manner not to be mistaken, capacity equal to the most arduous... | |
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