 His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! — Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness;...  Macaulay - Page 226by Richard H. Horne - 1844Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1818 - 574 pages
...! — Great G — ! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth...his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips. ' The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. I had worked... | |
 | 1818 - 590 pages
...Beautiful! — Great G — ! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath ; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth...colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, hjs shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips. ' The different accidents of life are not so changeable... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1823 - 586 pages
...Beautiful ! — Great God ! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath ; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing ; his teeth...his shrivelled complexion, and straight black lips. The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. I had worked... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 452 pages
...— Great God ! — His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath ; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing ; his teeth...his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips. " The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. I had worked... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 420 pages
...— Great God! — His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath ; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing ; his teeth...the same colour as the dun white sockets in which thpy were set — his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips. " The different accidents of life... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 pages
...»kin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneatli ; his hair was of a lustrous hlack and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but...watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour > the duo white sockets in which they were set — his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 420 pages
...— Great God' — His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteriei beneath ; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing ; his teeth of a pearly whiteness ; hut these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - 1867 - 656 pages
...features as beautiful. Beautiful ! His yellow skin scarcely covered the muscles and arteries beneath. His hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing, — his teeth of a pearly whiteness : but these only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, which seemed almost of the same colour as... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1869 - 200 pages
...Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath ; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth...with his watery eyes, that seemed "almost of the same color as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion, and straight black... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 pages
...Beautiful ! Great God ! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath ; his stly jar + The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. I had worked... | |
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