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" Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, the gigantic... "
Club life of London - Seite 186
von John Timbs - 1872
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Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 152 Seiten
...are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk, and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box,...with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is chat strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of 25 those among whom we have been brought...
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English Authors: A Handbook of English Literature from Chaucer to Living Writers

Mildred Lewis Rutherford - 1906 - 806 Seiten
...are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerc, and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box...disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the...
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Manual of Composition and Rhetoric

John Hays Gardiner, George Lyman Kittredge, Sarah Louise Arnold - 1907 - 524 Seiten
...the tall, thin form of Langton; the courtly sneer of Beauclerk and the beaming smile of tiarrick ; Gibbon tapping his snuff-box, and Sir Joshua with...; the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop; the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see...
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Lives of Great English Writers from Chaucer to Browning

Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere - 1908 - 616 Seiten
...are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk, and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box,...disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see...
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Literary Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 824 Seiten
...There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box...body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of 1 It is proper to observe that this passage bears a very close resemblance to a passage in the Rambler...
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Masters of English Literature

Edwin Watts Chubb - 1914 - 488 Seiten
...are the spectacles of Burke, and the tall, thin form of Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk, and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuffbox,...disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see...
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Famous Reviews

Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1914 - 552 Seiten
...There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box...with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black * It is proper to observe that this passage bears a very close resemblance to a passage in the Rambler...
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Readings in English Prose of the Nineteenth Century, Teil 1

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 376 Seiten
...There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box,...disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see...
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A Dictionary of European Literature: Designed as a Companion to English Studies

Laurie Magnus - 1926 - 618 Seiten
...followed in Boswell's steps '. So, through Boswell's unrivalled work, we see, in Macaulay's (qv) words, ' the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the grey wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see...
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Main Currents of English Literature: A Brief Literary History of the English ...

Percy Hazen Houston - 1926 - 548 Seiten
...There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Langton, the courtly sneer of Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box,...disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see...
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