 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 470 էջ
...his snuff-box, still he smiled and smiled, and rounded Ms periods with tti^ 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 - 1858 - 464 էջ
...done more stlo ; — still his mannerism prevailed; still, he tapped his snuff-box ; still he smirked and smiled, and rounded his periods with the same...he were conversing with men. His mouth, mellifluous 1w Plato's, was a round hole nearly in the centre of bis visage." Vol. I p. 121 — C. this all from... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1865 - 348 էջ
...done more suo ; — 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." The shadow of William Strahan flits before me in the note-books of Boswell. His father was... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 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... | |
 | 1883 - 836 էջ
...was done more suo — 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." (Quoted in Croker's Be1swell.) Now and then he even joins in a masquerade, "the finest thing... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 634 էջ
...was done more suo;—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.—Croker. 1 Mr. Samuel Sharpe, a surgeon, who had travelled for his health,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1885 - 436 էջ
...done more suo ; — 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. ip i2i.— CROKER.] 1 It may be observed, that Mr. Malone, in his very valuable edition... | |
 | Mabel E. Wotton - 1887 - 376 էջ
...was done more suo — 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." " M. Pavilliard has described to me the astonishment with which he gazed on Mr. Gibbon standing... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 էջ
...done more suafsic]; 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." Random Records, i. 121. 1 1 read Two notes on HAMLET. ' I read (said he,) Sharpc's letters... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 464 էջ
...done mor6 suo; — still his mannerism prevailed; still, he tapped his snuff-box ; still he smirked and smiled, and rounded his periods with the same...he were conversing with men. His mouth, mellifluous an Plato's, was a round hole nearly in the centre of his visage " Vol. I. p. 121. — C. 1 It may be... | |
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... 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 men. His mouth, mellifluous as Plato's, was a round hole nearly in the centre of his... 
