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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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A Scots Wanderjahre

David Lowe - 1900 - 236 pages
...the lonely Scholar nourishes his mighty heart. . . . 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. . . . Few were the objects and lonely the man, ' not...
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Longman's Handbook of English Literature: From A.D. 673 to the Present Time

Robert McWilliam - 1900 - 644 pages
...where the lonely scholar nourished his mighty heart. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed, 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. He was already turning...
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Longman's Handbook of English Literature

R. McWilliam - 1900 - 834 pages
...where the lonely scholar nourished his mighty heart. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed, and holding his extraordinary powers...conversation in easy command ; clinging to his northern humour, which floated everything he looked upon. He was already turning his eyes towards London with...
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Makers of the 19th Century

Richard Acland Armstrong - 1901 - 276 pages
...where the lonely scholar nourished his mighty heart." " 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." Such was the young man. Yet he had marvellous powers...
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Longman's Handbook of English Literature: From A.D. 673 to the ..., Part 5

Longman (Firm), Robert McWilliam - 1905 - 628 pages
...where the lonely scholar nourished his mighty heart. 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. He was already turning his eyes towards London with...
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Lives of Great English Writers from Chaucer to Browning

Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere - 1908 - 612 pages
...visited him at Craigenputtock, describes him as a man then " tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed and holding his extraordinary powers...evident relish ; full of lively anecdote, and with streaming humor which floated everything he looked upon." He had a great shock of dark hair, no beard...
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The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ... Fireside Edition, Volume 5

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 314 pages
...what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed and holding Ms extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command...into an acquaintance with his Lars and Lemurs, and it wa» very pleasant to learn what was predestined to be a pretty mythology. Few were the objects and...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 5

1909 - 540 pages
...as if holding on his own terms what is best in London. 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 exalting the familiar objects put the companion at once...
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Masters of English Literature

Edwin Watts Chubb - 1914 - 492 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...streaming humor which floated every thing he looked upon. . . . We went out to walk over long hills, and looked at Criffel, then without his cap, and down into...
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Recollections Literary and Political

John Hutton Balfour Browne - 1917 - 332 pages
...quoted. But Emerson's sketch of the man is excellent : ' He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed, and holding his extraordinary powers...northern accent with evident relish, full of lively anecdotes, and with streaming humour which floated everything he looked upon.' A writer in the Scotsman,...
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