He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command; clinging to his northern accent with evident relish; full of lively anecdote and with a streaming humor which floated everything... The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 15by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904Full view - About this book
| Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 pages
...if holding in his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, selfpossessed, and holding his extraordinary powers...northern accent with evident relish ; full of lively aneedote, and with a streaming humour, which floated everything he looked upon. His talk playfully... | |
| Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1879 - 226 pages
...where the lonely scholar nourished his mighty heart. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like hrow, self-possessed, and holding his extraordinary powers...anecdote, and with a streaming humor which floated everything he looked upon. Few were the objects, and lonely the man, 'not a person to • speak to... | |
| Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 236 pages
...gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed, and holding his extraordinary powers of conversat1on 1n easy command; clinging to his northern accent with...relish ; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humour, which floated everything he looked upon. His talk playfully exalting the familiar objects,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 504 pages
...if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed, and holding his extraordinary powers...anecdote, and with a streaming humor, which floated everything he looked upon. His talk playfully exalting the familiar objects, put the companion at once... | |
| Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1881 - 980 pages
...Traits, as the book is so accessible to every reader. " He was tall and gaunt, with a clifflike brow, self-possessed, and holding his extraordinary powers...anecdote and with a streaming humor, which floated everything he looked upon. His talk playfully exalted the familiar objects, put the companion at once... | |
| Richard Herne Shepherd, Charles Norris Williamson - 1881 - 434 pages
...if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed, and holding his extraordinary powers...relish ; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humour, which floated everything he looked upon. His talk, playfully exalting the familiar objects,... | |
| William Howie Wylie - 1881 - 436 pages
...if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed, and holding his extraordinary powers...relish ; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humour, which floated everything he looked upon. His talk playfully exalting the familiar objects,... | |
| William Howie Wylie - 1881 - 444 pages
...if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed, and holding his extraordinary powers...relish; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humour, which floated everything he looked upon. His talk playfully exalting the familiar objects,... | |
| 1880
...Waldo Emerson, when he called upon him in 1833, found him " tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed, and holding his extraordinary powers...relish ; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humour." We need scarcely mention that his spoken utterances, his conversation, has all the merit of... | |
| Richard Herne Shepherd, Charles Norris Williamson - 1881 - 414 pages
...his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, solf-possessed, and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation...relish ; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humour, which floated everything he looked upon. His talk, playfully exalting the familiar objects,... | |
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