 | American literature - 1860 - 620 pages
...favorite of tragic poets : " The son, Philip II., was a small, meager man, much below the middle hight, with thin legs, a narrow chest, and the shrinking, timid air of an habitual invalid. ' His body,' says his professed panegyrist, Cabrera, ' was but a human cage, in... | |
 | 1856 - 606 pages
...yours truly, 318 PORTRAIT GALLERY. PHILIP THE SECOND, AND THE MONARCHY OF OLD SPAIN. Philip II. was a small, meagre man, much below the middle height,...legs, a narrow chest, and the shrinking, timid air of an habitual invalid. " He seemed so little, upon his first visit to his aunts — the Queen Eleanor... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - Netherlands - 1856 - 606 pages
...human, but rather an original deformity. * So much for the father. The son, Philip the Second, was <a small, meagre man, much below the middle height,...legs, a narrow chest, and the shrinking, timid air of an habitual invalid.f He seemed so little, upon his first visit to his aunts, the Queens Eleanor and... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - Netherlands - 1858 - 536 pages
...e bet So mnch for the father. The son, Philip the Second, was a small, meagre man, much below tlie middle height, with thin legs, a narrow chest, and the shrinking, timid air of an habitual invalid.* He seemed so little, upon his first visit to his aunts, the Queens Eleanor and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 624 pages
...favorite of tragic poets : " The son, Philip II., was a email, meager man, much below the middle bight, with thin legs, a narrow chest, and the' shrinking, timid air of an habitual invalid ' His body,' says hia professed panegyrist, Cabrera, 'was but a human cage, in... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1861 - 838 pages
...Philip thus became sovereign of the most powerful and extensive empire in the world, including, beside the Netherlands, a great part of Italy, the whole...shrinking, timid air of a habitual invalid. He had a heavy, hanging lip, with a vast mouth and monstrously protruding lower jaw. His complexion was fair,... | |
 | John Tillotson - Battles - 1865 - 508 pages
...open warfare with each other, conspicuously figured on this occasion. The one was Philip of Spain, a small meagre man, much below the middle height, with thin legs, a narrow chest, and a shrinking timid air. His forehead was broad, and his eyes blue ; his nose aquiline, mouth large,... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - Netherlands - 1869 - 956 pages
...hardly human, but rather an original deformity.1 So much for the father. The son, Philip the Second, was a small meagre man, much below the middle height, with thin legs, a narrow chest, and tho shrinking, timid air of an habitual invalid.* He seemed so little, upon his first visit to his... | |
 | Noble Kibby Royse - American literature - 1872 - 382 pages
...hardly human, but rathei an original deformity. So much for trie father. The son, Philip the Second, was a small, meagre man, much below the middle height,...legs, a narrow chest, and the shrinking, timid air of an habitual invalid. He seemed so little, upon his first visit to his aunts, the Queens Eleanor and... | |
 | William Pratt Breed - Presbyterianism - 1872 - 252 pages
...away, whose mandates he most scrupulously obeyed — Philip II. of Spain. 7. Philip II. in person was "a small, meagre man, much below the middle height, with thin legs, narrow chest, and the shrinking, timid air of a habitual invalid/' One of his eulogists writes of him,... | |
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Philip the Second, was a small, meagre man, much below the middle height, with thin legs, a narrow chest, and the shrinking, timid air of an habitual invalid. 
