 | 1823 - 450 pages
...HORACE WALPOLK.— Hi» figure was not merely tall, but more properly /0113 and slender to excess; his complexion, and particularly his hands, of a most...and lively :— his voice was not strong, but his tone» were extremely pleasant, and if I may so «ay, highly gentlemanly. I do not remember his common... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...century : — " His figure was not merely tall, but more properly long and slender to excess ; his x@ remember his common gait ; he always entered a room in that style of affected delicacy, which fashion... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 pages
...century : — " His figure was not merely tall, but more properly long and slender to excess ; his complexion, and particularly his hands, of a most...and, if I may so say, highly gentlemanly. I do not remember his common gait ; he always entered a room in that style of affected delicacy, which fashion... | |
 | 1823 - 732 pages
...complexion, and particularly his hands, of a most unhealthypaleness. I speak of him before the year 1772. His eyes were remarkably bright and penetrating, very...and (if I may so say) highly gentlemanly. I do not remember his common gait : he always entered a room in that style of affected delicacy which fashion... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1823 - 572 pages
...before the year 1772. His eyes were remarkably bright and penetrating, very dark and lively : — bis voice was not strong, but his tones were extremely...and if I may so say, highly gentlemanly. I do not remember his common gait; he always entered a room in that style of affected delicacy which fashion... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Novelists, English - 1825 - 554 pages
...century: — « His figure was not merely tall, but more properly long and slender to excess ; his complexion, and particularly his hands, of a most...and, if I may so say, highly gentlemanly. I do not remember his common gait; he always entered a room in that style of affected delicacy, which fashion... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 506 pages
...century : — " His figure was not merely tall, but more properly long and slender to excess ; his complexion, and particularly his hands, of a most...and, if I may so say, highly gentlemanly. I do not remember his common gait ; he always entered a room in that style of affected delicacy, which fashion... | |
 | Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1834 - 484 pages
...last century : — "His figure was not merely tall, but more properly long and slender to excess ; his complexion, and particularly his hands, of a most...pleasant, and, if I may so say, highly gentlemanly. 1 do not remember his common gait ; he always entered a room in that style of affected delicacy, which... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 492 pages
...slender to excess ; his complexion, and particularly his hands, of a most unhealthy paleness. H is eyes were remarkably bright and penetrating, very...and, if I may so say, highly gentlemanly. I do not remember his common gait ; he always entered a room in that style of affected delicacy, which fashion... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 656 pages
...last century : — " His figure was not merely tall, but more properly long and slender to excess; his complexion, and particularly his hands, of a most...and, if I may so say, highly gentlemanly. I do not remember his common gait; he always entered a room in that style of affected delicacy, which fashion... | |
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His eyes were remarkably bright and penetrating, very dark and lively : his voice was not strong, but his tones were extremely pleasant, and, if I may so say, highly gentlemanly. I do not remember his common gait ; he always entered a room in that style... 
