 His figure was slight and fragile, and yet his bones and joints were large and strong. He was tall, but he stooped so much, that he seemed of a low stature. His clothes were expensive, and made according to the most approved mode of the day ; but they...  The Patrician - Page 558edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1832
...It was a sum of many contradictions. His figure was slight and fragile, and yet his bones and joints were large and strong. He was tall, but he stooped so much, that he seemed of a low stature. His clothes were expensive, and made according to the most approved mode of the day... | |
 | Thomas Medwin - Poets, English - 1847 - 372 pages
...recollection of him at this interview. " His figure was slight and fragile, and yet his bones and joints were large and strong. He was tall, but he stooped...description which he had heard of him in some company, vi/. . that he looked like an elegant and slender flowerwhose head drooped from being surcharged with... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - English literature - 1853 - 296 pages
...in the academic costume of Oxford. The sketch tallied pretty well with a verbal description which I had heard of him in some company, viz., that he looked like an elegant and slender flower,i whose head drooped from being surcharged with rain. ; This gave, to the chance observer, an... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1861
..."was a sum of many pontradictions. His figure was slight and fragile, and yet his bones and joints were large and strong. He was tall, but he stooped so much that he seemed of a low stature His gestures were abrupt, and sometimes violent, occasionally even awkward, yet more... | |
 | 1861
..." was a sum of many contradictions. His figure was slight and fragile, and yet his bones and joints were large and strong. He was tall, but he stooped so much that he seemed of a low stature His gestures were abrupt, and sometimes violent, occasionally even awkward, yet more... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - English literature - 1875
...It was a sum of many contradictions. His figure was slight and fragile, and yet his bones and joints were large and strong. He was tall, but he stooped so much that he seemed of a low stature. His clothes were expensive, and made according to the most approved mode of the day;... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - English literature - 1875
...It was a sum of many contradictions. His figure was slight and fragile, and yet his bones and joints were large and strong. He was tall, but he stooped so much that he seemed of a low stature. His clothes were expensive, and made according to the most approved mode of the day;... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Poets, English - 1876 - 290 pages
...It was a sum of many contradictions. His figure was slight and fragile, and yet his bones and joints were large and strong. He was tall, but he stooped so much, that he seemed of a low stature. His clothes were expensive, and made according to the most approved mode of the day... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1878
...It was a sum of many contradictions. His figure was slight and fragile, and yet his bones and joints were large and strong. He was tall, but he stooped so much, that he seemed of a low stature. His clothes were expensive, and made according to the most approved mode of the day... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 189 pages
...It was a sum of many contradictions. His figure was slight and fragile, and yet his bones and joints were large and strong. He was tall, but he stooped so much, that he seemed of a low stature. His clothes were expensive, and made according to the most approved mode of the day... | |
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