 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, would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable...  Knickerbocker's History of New York: (books III-VII) - Стр. 5авторы: Washington Irving - 1909 - Страниц: 288Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1810 - Страниц: 874
...as though it had been moulded by the hands of some cunning dutch statuary, as a model of majesty Did lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches...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 - Страниц: 302
...old gentleman was as regularly formed, and nobly proportioned, as though it had been moulded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of...dame nature with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled to construct a neck, capable of supporting it; wherefore she wisely declined the attempt,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1819 - Страниц: 476
...gentleman was as regularly formed and nobly proportioned, as though it had been moulded by the hands ol some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and 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.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1819 - Страниц: 310
...old gentleman was as regularly formed, and nobly proportioned, as though it had been moulded by the hands 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.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - Страниц: 362
...old gentleman was as regularly formed, and nobly proportioned, as though it had been moulded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary as a model of...dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable of supporting it ; wherefore she wisely declined the attempt,... | |
 | 1821 - Страниц: 732
...old gentleman was as regularly formed, and nobly proportioned, as though it had been moulded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary as a model of...dame nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable of supporting it ; wherefore she wisely declined the attempt,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1821 - Страниц: 414
...old gentleman was a sregularly formed, and nobly proportioned, as though it had been moulded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of...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 - 1821 - Страниц: 414
...old gentleman was a sregularly formed, and nobly proportioned, as though it had been moulded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of...five feet six inches in height, and six feet five niches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, far excelling in magnitude that of the great... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - Страниц: 318
...old gentleman was as regularly formed, and nobly proportioned, as though it had been moulded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of...dame nature with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable of supporting it; wherefore she wisely declined the attempt,... | |
 | George Lockhart - 1824 - Страниц: 870
...old gentleman was as regularly formed, and nobly proportioned, as though it had been moulded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of...inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, far excelling in magnitude that of the great Pericles (who was thence waggishly called Scheuocephalus,... | |
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