| Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 396 էջ
...snuff-box, still he smirked and smiled, and rounded his periods with the same air of good breeding as if he were conversing with men. His mouth, mellifluous as Plato's, was a round hole, nearly In tHc centre of his visage. —Vol. ip 121. Mr. Croker's Note.— M. CHAPTER VII J. Mr. Gibbou settles... | |
| Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 էջ
...snuff-box, still he smirked and smiled, and rounded his periods with the same air of good breeding as if he were conversing with men. His mouth, mellifluous as Plato's, was a round hole, nearly !n the centre of his visage.— Vol. ip 121. Mr. Croker's Note.— M. CHAPTER VI11 . Mr. Gibbou settles... | |
| Richard Brinsley Peake - 1841 - 442 էջ
...was done more sud, still his mannerism prevailed ; still he tapped his snuff-box ; still he smirked, and smiled, and rounded his periods with the same...air of good-breeding, as if he were conversing with meu His mouth, mellifluous as Plato's, was a round hole, nearly hi the centre of his visage." Colman... | |
| James Boswell - 1843 - 588 էջ
...more iuo; — still his mannerism prevailed; — still he lapped his snuff-box, — still he smirked, and smiled; and rounded his periods with the same air of goodbreeding, as if he were convening with men. — ilia mouth mellifluous as Plato's, was a round hole, nearly in the centre of... | |
| James Boswell - 1844 - 370 էջ
...done moretuo ; — still his mannerism prevailed ; still he tapped his snuff-box : still he smirked and smiled, and rounded his periods with the same...Plato's, was a round hole nearly in the centre of his visage." Vol. I. p. 121.— C. (1) Mr. Samuel Sharpe, a surgeon, who had travelled for his health,... | |
| Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 318 էջ
...his snuff-box, still he smiled and smiled, and rounded his periods with the same air of good breeding as if he were conversing with men. His mouth, mellifluous...Plato's, was a round hole nearly in the centre of his visage." We are now in the last place to consider Gibbon as an historian, and in considering the nature... | |
| Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1846 - 580 էջ
...his snuff-box, still he smiled and smiled, and rounded his periods with the same air of good breeding as if he were conversing with men. His mouth, mellifluous...Plato's, was a round hole nearly in the centre of his visage." We are now in the last place to consider Gibbon as an historian, and in considering the nature... | |
| James Boswell - 1848 - 392 էջ
...done moresuo ; — still his mannerism prevailed ; still he tapped his snuff-box ; still be smirked and smiled, and rounded his periods with the same...Plato's, was a round hole nearly in the centre of bis visage." Vol. I. p. 121.— C. (1) Mr. Samuel Sharpe, a surgeon, who had travelled for his health,... | |
| 1920 - 968 էջ
...light and playful, suiting his manner to tho capacity of the boy .... he tapp'd his snuff box. . . .he smirk'd and smiled ; and rounded his periods with the same air of goodbreeding as if he was conversing with men (' Random Records,' vol. i., pp. 121, 1830)." The Temple letters supply the... | |
| 1855 - 364 էջ
...his snuff-box, still he smirked and smiled, and rounded his lerioda with the same air of good breedng as if he were conversing with men. His mouth, mellifluous...Plato's, was a round hole, nearly in the centre of his visage." No sooner was Gibbon settled in his London house than he commenced the composition of his... | |
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