 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1891 - 126 pages
...Introduction to Knight's Quarterly Magazine: " There comes up a short manly figure, marvelously upright, wiLh a bad neckcloth, and one hand in his waistcoat pocket....faces where there is an expression of great power, or great good humor, or both, you do not regret its absence." This picture, in which every touch is correct,... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret), Francis Romano Oliphant - English literature - 1892 - 382 pages
...friend Praed may not be uninteresting. He is described as A short manly figure, marvellously upright, with a bad neckcloth, and one hand in his waistcoat...good humour, or both, you do not regret its absence. The homely features are said, indeed, to have been so thoroughly lit up by anything that awoke his... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret), Francis Romano Oliphant - English literature - 1892 - 382 pages
...friend Praed may not be uninteresting. He is described as A short manly figure, marvellously upright, with a bad neckcloth, and one hand in his waistcoat...good humour, or both, you do not regret its absence. The homely features are said, indeed, to have been so thoroughly lit up by anything that awoke his... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 120 pages
...Introduction to Knight's Quarterly Magazine: " There comes up a short manly figure, marvelously upright, with a bad neckcloth, and one hand in his waistcoat...faces where there is an expression of great power, or great good humor, or both, you do not regret its absence." This picture, in which every touch is correct,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 270 pages
...Introduction to Knight's Quarterly Magazine. ' There came up a short, manly figure, marvellously upright, with a bad neckcloth, and one hand in his waistcoat...there is an expression of great power, or of great good-humor, or both, you do not regret its absence.' This picture, in which every touch is correct,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 136 pages
...Introduction to Knight's Quarterly Magazine. ' There came up a short, manly figure, marvellously upright, with a bad neckcloth, and one hand in his waistcoat...there is an expression of great power, or of great good-humor, or both, you do not regret its absence.' This picture, in which every touch is correct,... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 560 pages
...Introduction to Knight's Quarterly Magazine. " There came up a short manly figure, marvelously upright, with a bad neckcloth and one hand in his waistcoat...is an expression of great power, or of great good humor, or both, you do not regret its absence." This picture, in which every touch is correct, tells... | |
 | Robert Farquharson Sharp - Authors, English - 1900 - 424 pages
...by Macaulay 's personal appearance about this time : " A short manly figure, marvellously upright, with a bad neckcloth, and one hand in his waistcoat...good humour, or both, you do not regret its absence." Macaulay was notorious for the carelessness with which he wore his clothes, though the clothes themselves... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Education - 1903 - 314 pages
...Introduction to Knight's Quarterly Magazine. 'There came up a short, manly figure, marvellously upright, with a bad neckcloth, and one hand in his waistcoat...- humour, or both, you do not regret its absence.' This picture, in which every touch is correct, tells all that there is to be told. He had a massive... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 310 pages
...short manly figure, marvelously upright, with a bad neckcloth, and one hand in his waistcoat-pocket. Of regular beauty he had little to boast; but in faces...there is an expression of great power, or of great good-humor, or both, you do not regret its absence." Says Trevelyan: " He had a massive head, and features... | |
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There came up a short manly figure, marvellously upright, with a bad neckcloth, and one hand in his waistcoat pocket. Of regular beauty he had little to boast ; but in faces where there is an expression of great power, or of great good humor, or both,... 
