 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 - Seite 558herausgegeben von - 1847Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1832 - 614 Seiten
...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 - 1847 - 408 Seiten
...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 - 1853 - 316 Seiten
...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 - 1861 - 586 Seiten
..."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 - 584 Seiten
..." 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 - 1875 - 496 Seiten
...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 - 1875 - 494 Seiten
...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 - 1876 - 336 Seiten
...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 - 438 Seiten
...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 - 216 Seiten
...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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