![The Edinburgh monthly magazine [afterw.] Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine ...](http://bks3.books.google.co.uk/books?id=12wEAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "The Edinburgh monthly magazine [afterw.] Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine ...") | 1876
...short, manly figure, marvellously upright, with a bad neckeloth, and one hand in his waistcoat-pocket. Of regular beauty he had little to boast ; but in...there is an expression of great power, or of great goodhumour, or both, you do not regret its absence." He was " utterly destitute of bodily accomplishments... | |
 | G. OTTO TREVELYAN - 1876
...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...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,... | |
 | 1877
...two sentences of Praed :— " There came up a short manly figure, marvellously upright, with a broad neckcloth, and one hand in his waistcoat pocket. Of...good humour, or both, you do not regret its absence." Although he dressed ill, he had always a superabundant wardrobe, and if his genius did not lie in the... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan (sir, 2nd bart.) - Literary Criticism - 1878
...neckcloth,1 and one hand in his waistcoat pocket. Of regular beauty he had little to boast ; but in face? where there is an expression of great power, or of...good 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... | |
 | Sir George Otto Trevelyan - 1878
...Quarterly Magazine. " There came up a short manly figure, marvellously upright, with a bad neckcloth,1 and one hand in his waistcoat pocket. Of regular beauty he had little to boast ; but in face? where there is an expression of great power, or of great good humour, or both, you do not regret... | |
 | edward t. mason - 1884
...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,... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - Literary Criticism - 1886 - 460 pages
...Introduction to Kr.ighfs 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-humour, or both, you do not regret its absence." In everything that requires manual dexterity... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1886 - 300 pages
..." ' Tristram Merton, come into court ! ' There came up a short, manly figure, marvellously upright, with a bad neckcloth, and one hand in his waistcoat...faces where there is an expression of great power, or great good-humour, or of both, you do not regret its absence. " ' They were glorious days,' he said,... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1886 - 300 pages
..." ' Tristram Merton, come into court ! ' There came up a short, manly figure, marvellously upright, with a bad neckcloth, and one hand in his waistcoat...faces where there is an expression of great power, or great good-humour, or of both, you do not regret its absence. " ' They were glorious days,' he said,... | |
 | Mabel E. Wotton - 1887 - 337 pages
...Magazine. ' There came up a and Letters of Lord Macanlay. 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-humour, or both, you do not regret its absence.' This picture, in which every touch is correct,... | |
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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,... 
