Truth might lie between He was certainly sixty-five; and the general air of his countenance, notwithstanding something seemed to have been planting wrinkles in it before their time, agreed to the account. It was one of those heads, which Guido has often... The Works of Laurence Sterne ... - Seite 7von Laurence Sterne - 1780Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 704 Seiten
...was certainly sixty-five ; and the general air of his countenance, notwithstanding something seemed to have been planting wrinkles in it before their time, agreed to the account. It was one of those heads which Guido has often painted — mild, pale, penetrating, free from all commonplace ideas... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 Seiten
...was certainly sixty-five ; and the general air of his countenance, notwithstanding something seemed to have been planting wrinkles in it before their time, agreed to the account. It was one of those heads which Guide has often painted — mild, pale, penetrating, free from all commonplace ideas... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 Seiten
...was certainly sixty-five ; and the general air of his countenance, notwithstanding something seemed to have been planting wrinkles in it before their time, agreed to the account. It was one of those heads which Guido has often painted — mild, pale, penetrating, free from all commonplace ideas... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 628 Seiten
...was certainly sixty-five ; and the general air of his countenance, notwithstanding something seemed to have been planting wrinkles in it before their time, agreed to the account. It was one of those heads which Guido has often painted, — mild, pale, penetrating, — free from all commonplace... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1900 - 174 Seiten
...to have been planting wrinkles in it before their time, agreed to the account. It was one of those heads which Guido has often painted—mild, pale—penetrating,...earth—it look'd forwards; but look'd, as if it look'd at something beyond this world. How one of his order came by it, heaven above, who let it fall upon a... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1904 - 762 Seiten
...was certainly sixty-five ; and the general air of his countenance, notwithstanding something seem'd to have been planting wrinkles in it before their time, agreed to the account. It was one of those heads which Guido has often painted mild, pale penetrating, free from all commonplace ideas of... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1905 - 162 Seiten
...the account. i It was one of those heads which Guido has often painted, — mild, pale, penetrating, free from all common-place ideas of fat, contented ignorance looking downwards upon the earth ; it looked forwards, but looked as if it looked at something beyond this world. How one of his... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1911 - 664 Seiten
...was certainly sixty-five ; and the general air of his countenance, notwithstanding something seemed to have been planting wrinkles in it before their time, agreed to the account. It was one of those heads which Guido has often painted — mild, pale, penetrating, free from all commonplace ideas... | |
| William Allan Neilson - 1917 - 540 Seiten
...was certainly sixty-five; and the general air of his countenance, notwithstanding something seem'd to have been planting wrinkles in it before their time, agreed to the account. It was one of those heads which Guido has often painted —mild, pale—penetrating, free from all commonplace ideas... | |
| Sabine Baring-Gould - 1920 - 390 Seiten
...impulses, to pleasure, mirth ; Mingling, at intervals, with rational talk Music. pale, penetrating, free from all commonplace ideas of fat, contented, ignorance looking downwards upon the earth — it looks forwards ; but looked, as if it looked at something beyond this world."1 Monachism... | |
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