 Dutch statuary as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity,...  The popular educator - Seite 345von Popular educator - 1854Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1810 - 874 Seiten
...of some cunning dutch statuary, as a model of majesty Did lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, far excelling in magnitude that of the great Pericles (who was thence waggishly called Scbe•nocephalut,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1819 - 310 Seiten
...of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur.\He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in...the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his back bone, just between the shoulders. His body was of an oblong form, particularly capacious at bottom;... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1819 - 302 Seiten
...of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in...the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his back bone, just between the shoulders. His body was of an oblong form, particularly capacious at bottom;... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1819 - 476 Seiten
...lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inchei Vol. IX. No. 2. 44 346 Tltc Sketch Book. [Sept. in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, far excelling in magnitude that of the great Pericles (who was thence waggishly called Hchenocephalus,... | |
 | 1821 - 732 Seiten
...of some cunning Dutch statuary as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in...the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his back bone, just between the shoulders. His body was of an oblong form, particularly capacious at bottom... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 414 Seiten
...Schenocephalus, or onion head) — indeed, of such stupendous dimensions was it, that dame Nature herself, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled...the top of his back-bone, just between the shoulders ; where it remained, as snugly bedded as a ship pf war in the mud of the Potowmac. His body was of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - 414 Seiten
...of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, far excelling in magnitude that of the great Pericles (who was thence waggishly called Schenoctphalus,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 318 Seiten
...of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in...the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his back bone, just between the shoulders. His body was of an oblongform, particularly capaciousat bottom... | |
 | George Lockhart - 1824 - 870 Seiten
...of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, far excelling in magnitude that of the great Pericles (who was thence waggishly called Scheuocephalus,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1825 - 356 Seiten
...of some cunning Dutch statuary as a model of majesty and lordly grandenr. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, far excelling in magnitnde that of the great Pericles (who was thence waggishly called Schenocephaliu,... | |
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