As a Logic-fencer, Advocate, or Parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back him at first sight against all the extant world. The tanned complexion, that amorphous crag-like face ; the dull black eyes under their precipice of brows, like dull anthracite... Life of Daniel Webster - Página 21por George Ticknor Curtis - 1872Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 678 páginas
...face is pictured as " rough-hewn, seamed, carbuncled." In describing Daniel Webster, Carlyle speaks of "the tanned complexion, that amorphous crag-like face; the dull black eyes under their precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces needing only to be blown, the mastiff-mouth,... | |
| Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 672 páginas
...is pictured as " rough-hewn, seamed, carbuncled." In describing Daniel Webster, Carlyle speaks of " the tanned complexion, that amorphous crag-like face; the dull black eyes under their precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces needing only to be blown, the mastiff-mouth,... | |
| Frederic Austin Ogg - 1914 - 450 páginas
...breakfast the notablest of all your notabilities, Daniel Webster. He is a magnificent specimen. ... As a logic-fencer, advocate, or parliamentary Hercules,...brows, like dull anthracite furnaces needing only to be blown; the mastiff-month, accurately closed ; I have not traced so much of silent Berserkir rage that... | |
| Emma Miller Bolenius - 1915 - 366 páginas
...said Carlyle in speaking of him. " As a logic fencer or parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to him at first sight against all the extant world. The tanned complexion; the amorphous crag-like face; the dull black eyes under the precipice of brows, like dull anthracite... | |
| Marion Mills Miller - 1916 - 496 páginas
...specimen; you may say to all the world, This is your Yankee Englishman, such Limbs -we make in Yankeeland ! As a Logic-fencer, Advocate or Parliamentary Hercules,...amorphous craglike face; the dull black eyes under their precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces, needing only to be blown; the mastiff -mouth,... | |
| 1919 - 694 páginas
...novel freshness of his diction. Take, for instance, Carlyle's famous description of Daniel Webster: "The tanned complexion, that amorphous crag-like face; the dull black eyes under their precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces, needing only to be blown; the mastiff-mouth,... | |
| 1919 - 692 páginas
...novel freshness of his diction. Take, for instance, Carlyle's famous description of Daniel Webster: "The tanned complexion, that amorphous crag-like face; the dull black eyes under their precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces, needing only to be blown; the mastiff -mouth,... | |
| George Edward Woodberry - 1921 - 336 páginas
...qualities in those of whom he writes. Two more of these portraits cannot be spared. Of Webster he writes, "As a Logic-fencer, Advocate, or Parliamentary Hercules,...amorphous, crag-like face, the dull black eyes under their precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces, needing only to be blown, the mastiff-mouth... | |
| Charles Edward Hill - 1922 - 434 páginas
...limbs we make in Yankee land ! " As a logic fencer, or parliamentary Hercules, one would be inclined to back him at first sight against all the extant...like dull anthracite furnaces, needing only to be blown; the mastiff mouth accurately closed; I have not traced so much of silent Berscrkir rage that... | |
| John Burroughs - 1922 - 318 páginas
...eyes, with that portraying hand," had seen Webster. And this is the portrait Carlyle drew of him : " As a Logicfencer, Advocate, or Parliamentary Hercules,...amorphous, crag-like face ; the dull black eyes under their precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces, needing only to be blown; the mastiff-mouth,... | |
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