 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1896 - 902 pages
...more sua (sic) ; still his mannerisms 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 was conversing with men." Above all, Gibbon was a straightforward, strictly honorable man. His relatioiis... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Great Britain - 1897 - 424 pages
...light and playful, suiting his matter to the capacity of the boy ; — but it was done more ma (xic); still his mannerism prevail'd; — still he tapp'd...were conversing with men. — His mouth, [mellifluous at Plato's, was a round hole, nearly in the centre of his visage." you could do for me. *I am surely... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Great Britain - 1897 - 422 pages
...more tud (sic); still his mannerism prevail'd;— still he tapp'd his snuff-box,—still he smirk* tl, 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 visage." you... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1898 - 720 pages
...it was done more suo : still his maanerism prevailed, still he tapped his snuffbox, still he smirked and smiled, and rounded his periods with the same air of good-breeding as 'tf he were conversing with men. His mouth, mellifluous as Plato's, was a round hole, nearly in the... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1900 - 480 pages
...still his mannerism prevailed ; still he tapped hissnuff-box ; still he smirked and smiled, and sounded his periods with the same air of good-breeding, as...Plato's, was a round hole nearly in the centre of his visage." Croker. Talking of his " Notes on Shakespeare," he said, " I despise those who do not see... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 pages
...light and playful, suiting his matter to the capacity of the boy; — but it was done more sua (sic) ; pear against the Muses' bower: The great Enmthiaii...bare. —MILTON, JOHN, 1642, When the Assault was i visage.— COLMAN, GEORGE (THE YOUNGER), 1830, Random Records, p. 121. The author of the great and... | |
 | Literature - 1896 - 926 pages
...was more sua (sic); still his mannerisms preval UM; still he tapped his snuff-box; still lie smirked, and smiled, and rounded his periods with the same air of goodbreeding, as If he was conversing with men." Above all, Gibbon was a straightforward, strictly honorable man. П1« relations... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1896 - 1086 pages
...more sua (sic) ; still his mannerisms 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 was conversing with men.' Above all, Gibbon was a straightforward, strictly honourable man. His relations... | |
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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... 
