 | John Trumbull - 1841 - 520 Seiten
...lofty expression of his animated countenance, the high resolve to conquer or to perish. The result was in my own opinion eminently successful, and the general was satisfied. But it did not meet the views of Mr. Smith. He admired, he was personally pleased, but he thought the... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1846 - 464 Seiten
...lofty expression of his animated countenance, the high resolve to conquer or to perish. The result was, in my own opinion, eminently successful, and the General was satisfied. But it did not meet the views of Mr. Smith. He admired, he was personally pleased, but he thought the... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1846 - 354 Seiten
...lofty expression of his animated countenance, the high resolve to conquer or to perish. The result was, in my own opinion, eminently successful, and the General was satisfied. But it did not meet the views of Mr. Smith. He admired, he was personally pleased, but he thought the... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1846 - 346 Seiten
...lofty expression of his animated countenance, the high resolve to conquer or to perish. The result was, in my own opinion, eminently successful, and the General was satisfied. But it did not meet the views of Mr. Smith. He admired, he was personally pleased, but he thought the... | |
 | 1855 - 684 Seiten
...tho hazardous but fixed determination of that hour ; and, as tho gratified painter declares, " looked the scene." " The result," he says, " was, in my own...eminently successful, and the General was satisfied." Tho gentleman who was the medinm of this commission to Trumbull, praised his work; but, aware of the... | |
 | 1855 - 714 Seiten
...determination of that hour ; and, as the gratified painter declares, " looked the scene." " The result," ho says, " was, in my own opinion, eminently successful, and the General was satisfied." The gentleman who was the medium of this commission to Trumbull, praised his work; but, aware of tho... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 524 Seiten
...opinion, eminently successful, and the General was satisfied." Whether the observer of VOL. v.—22 the present day accedes to the opinion, that he "...not, he must admit that it combines great apparent fidelity, with more spirit and the genius of action, than all other portraits. Although not so familiar... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 478 Seiten
...the hazardous but fixed determination of that hour ; and, as the gratified painter declares, "looked the scene." "The result," he says, " was, in my own...the General was satisfied." Whether the observer of VOL. v. — 32 the present day accedes to the opinion, that he " happily transferred to the canvas... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 Seiten
...advanced, we talked of the scene, its dangers, its almost desperation. He looked the scene again, and I happily transferred to the canvas the lofty expression of his animated countenance, the high resolve to conquer or to perish." In the year 1815, Congress authorized the president to employ... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1861 - 844 Seiten
...advanced, we talked of the scene, its dangers, its almost desperation. He looked the scene again, and I happily transferred to the canvas the lofty expression of his animated countenance, the high resolve to conquer or to perish." In the year 1815, Congress authorized the president to employ... | |
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... circumstances, described the scene, and his face was lighted up as the memorable crisis in his country's fate and his own career was renewed before him. He spoke of the desperate chance, the Wild hope, and the hazardous but fixed determination of... 
