 | 1828 - 722 pages
...the plough-tail, at a single stride, manifested, in the whole strain of his bearing and conversation, a most thorough conviction that in the society of...most eminent men of his nation, he was exactly where lie was entitled to be ; hardly deigned to flatter them by exhibiting even an occasional symptom of... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - 734 pages
...the plough-tail at a single stride, manifested, in the whole strain of his bearing and conversation, a most thorough conviction, that, in the society of...understandings of his time in discussion; overpowered the Ion mots of the most celebrated convivialists by broad floods of merriment, impregnated with all the... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Poets, Scottish - 1828 - 324 pages
...the plough-tail at a single stride, manifested, in the whole strain of his bearing and conversation, a most thorough conviction, that, in the society of...understandings of his time in discussion; overpowered the ban mots of the most celebrated convivialists by broad floods of merriment, impregnated with all the... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1831 - 338 pages
...the plough-tail at a single stride, manifested, in the wiiole strain of his bearing and conversation, a most thorough conviction, that, in the society of...eminent men of his nation, he was exactly where he waa entitled to be ; hardly deigned to flatter them by exhibiting even an occasional symptom of being... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 356 pages
...from the plough-tail at a single stride, manifested in the whole train of his hearing and conversation a most thorough conviction that, in the society of...understandings of his time in discussion — overpowered the bon-mots of the most celebrated convivialists by broad floods of merriment, impregnated with all the... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...the plough-tail, at a single stride, manifested in the whole strain of his bearing and conversation, a most thorough conviction that in the society of...understandings of his time in discussion ; overpowered the ban mots of the most celebrated convivialists by broad floods of merriment, impregnated with all the... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - Scotland - 1837 - 628 pages
...the plough-tail at я single guide, roanifested, in the whole strain of his bearing and conversation, a most thorough conviction, that, in the society of...by their notice ; by turns calmly measured himself iigainst the most cultivated understandings of his time in discussion ; overpowered the bon mots of... | |
 | James Currie - 1838 - 92 pages
...the plough-tail, at a single stride, manifested, in the whole strain of his bearing and conversation, a most thorough conviction, that, in the society of...understandings of his time in discussion; overpowered the ban mots of the most celebrated convivialists by broad floods of merriment, impregnated with all the... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - German literature - 1838 - 476 pages
...the plough-tail, at a single stride, manifested hi the whole strain of his bearing and conversation, a most thorough conviction that in the society of...understandings of his time in discussion; overpowered the ban mots of the most celebrated convivialists by broad floods of merriment, impregnated with all the... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 862 pages
...the plough-tail, at a single stride, manifested in the whole strain of his bearing and conversation, a most thorough conviction that in the society of...; overpowered the bon mots of the most celebrated convivialists by broad floods of merriment, impregnated with all the burning life of genius ; astounded... | |
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... in the whole strain of his bearing and conversation, a most thorough conviction that in the society of the most eminent men of his nation, he was exactly where he was entitled to be; hardly deigned to flatter them by exhibiting even an occasional... 
