 ... drawing-room, at work, or rather drinking and talking over his old disasters. It was with heartfelt concern the author perceived, that his friend had re-commenced his pernicious draughts ; and the havoc it seemed to have made in his intellects, was...  George Morland: His Life and Works - Seite 86von George Charles Williamson - 1907 - 199 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Collins - 1805 - 266 Seiten
...seemed to have made in his intellects, was only equalled by the evident decay of his .constitution. He looked besotted and squalid ; cadaverous hanging...nose, contracted nostrils, bleared and bloodshot eyes, a bloated frame, swelled legs, a palsied hand, and a tremulous voice ! All bespoke the dismal ruin... | |
 | William Collins (picture-dealer.) - 1805 - 260 Seiten
...seemed to have made in his intellects, was only equalled by the evident decay of his constitution. He looked 'besotted and squalid; cadaverous hanging...nose, contracted nostrils, bleared and bloodshot eyes, a bloated frame, swelled legs, a palsied hand, and a tremulous voice! All bespoke the dismal ruin of... | |
 | Sir Walter Gilbey, Edward William Dirom Cuming - 1907 - 524 Seiten
...it seemed to have made in his intellects was only equalled by the evident decay of his constitution. He looked besotted and squalid : cadaverous hanging...nose, contracted nostrils, bleared and bloodshot eyes, a bloated frame, swelled legs, a palsied hand, and tremulous voice. The " palsied hand " was the left,... | |
 | Arthur St. John Adcock - 1912 - 412 Seiten
...of his reckless dissipations, and looked " besotted and squalid and cadaverous ; hanging cheeks and pinched nose, contracted nostrils, bleared and bloodshot eyes, swelled legs, a palsied hand, and tremulous voice bespeaking the ruin of what had once been the soundest of frames." Drunk or sober,... | |
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