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" 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 15
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904
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The treasury of modern biography, compiled by R. Cochrane, Issue 92

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...
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Thomas Carlyle: His Life, His Books, His Theories

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...
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Gallery of notable men and women, compiled by the editor of 'The treasury of ...

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,...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ..., Volume 3

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...
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Penn Monthly Magazine, Volume 12

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...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Carlyle: With Personal ..., Volume 1

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,...
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Thomas Carlyle: The Man and His Books : Illustrated by Personal ...

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,...
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Thomas Carlyle: The Man and His Books : Illustrated by Personal ...

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,...
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The Border Counties' Magazine, Volumes 1-2

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...
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v. 2, 1847-1881

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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