 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - English literature - 1883 - 1254 pages
...coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and...we hear it puffing; and then comes the " Why, sir I " and the "What then, sir?" and the "No, sir!" and the "You don't see your way through the question,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 876 pages
...Rambler (No. 20). The resemblance may possibly be the effect of unconicioit» plagiarism. the r.ails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and...twitches ; we see the heavy form rolling ; we hear it puffin); ; and then comes the " Why, sir !" and the "What then, sir?" and the "Xo, sir ¡ " and the... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, Truman Jay Backus - American literature - 1884 - 508 pages
...coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and...' You don't see your way through the question, sir 1' "—7". B. Macavlay. ~T~1TT~IIILE the novelists and historians whose works we VV have been considering... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, Truman Jay Backus - American literature - 1884 - 500 pages
...coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and...we hear it puffing ; and then comes the ' Why, sir 1 ' and the ' What then , sir ? ' and the ' No, sir ! ' and the ' You don't see your way through the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1885 - 916 pages
...the nails hitten and pared to the q:iiek. We see the eyes and mouth moving with convulsive twitehes; reasons which are somewhat amusing. The King had...person in his mess at Gray's Inn. This was not very • It is proper to observe that this passsRo. boars a very elose rese.mblance to a passage In the... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig ,with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and..." You don't see your way through the question, sir !" 8. What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man ! To be regarded in his own age... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Artists - 1887 - 632 pages
...coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and...'Why, sir!' and the 'What then, sir?' and the 'No, air I' and the 'You don't see your way through the question, sir ! '" Johnson's last few years were... | |
 | Literature - 1887 - 514 pages
...the gray wig wilh the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. \Vc see the eyes and mouth moving with convulsive twitches;...heavy form rolling; we hear it puffing ; and then conies the " Why, sir! " and the " What then, sir? " and the " No, sir! " and the "You don't see your... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and month `l47 air!" and the "What then, sir?" and the "No, sir!" and the "You don't see your way through the question,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1890 - 1100 pages
...coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails which existed between Mr. Bentham and M. Dumont is...The great discoveries in physics, in metaphysics, i Î " and the " No, sir ! " and the " You don't see your way through the question, sir ! " What a singular... | |
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... wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and mouth moving with convulsive twitches; we see the heavy form rolling; we hear it puffing; and then comes the " Why, sir ! 
