 | 1861 - 594 páginas
...considered his duty, he deserved to be a champion of the right rather than an instrument of despotism. . . . A noble, commanding shape, entitled to the admiration...matured and mellowed, but still unharmed by time." But this man, gifted with all that could render him an ornament and a benefactor to his kind, must... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - 1861 - 556 páginas
...And thus he paused for a moment — with much work already accomplished, but his hardest life-task before him ; still in the noon of manhood, a fine...— Ghent, Dendermonde, Mechlin, Brussels, Antwerp, lie in a narrow circle, at distances from each other varying from five miles to thirty, and are all... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - 1861 - 562 páginas
...And thus he paused for a moment — with much work already accomplished, but his hardest life-task before him ; still in the noon of manhood, a fine...— Ghent, Dendermonde, Mechlin, Brussels, Antwerp, lie in a narrow circle, at distances from each other varying from five miles to thirty, and are all... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - 1861 - 568 páginas
...And thus he paused for a moment — with much ^rork already accomplished, but his hardest life-task before him ; still in the noon of manhood, a fine...unharmed by time. The cities of Flanders and Brabant ho determined to reduce by gaining command of the Scheldt. The five principal ones — Ghent, Dendermonde,... | |
 | 1861 - 624 páginas
...And thus he paused for a moment — with much work already accomplished, but his hardest life-task before him ; still in the noon of manhood, a fine...matured and mellowed, but still unharmed by time.' (Vol. ip 138.) This general, who was capable of draining whole districts for the sake of taking a town,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero - 1861 - 630 páginas
...And thus he paused for a moment — with much work already accomplished, but his hardest life-task before him ; still in the noon of manhood, a fine...matured and mellowed, but still unharmed by time.' Sainte Aldejjonde, as Burgomaster, was at the head of the defence ; and Mr. Motley's admirable description... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1861 - 790 páginas
...And thus he paused for a moment — with much work already accomplished, but his hardest life-task before him ; still in the noon of manhood, a fine...matured and mellowed, but still unharmed by time." Henry of Navarre, the hope of the Huguenots, is thus limned : " We see at once, a man of moderate stature,... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1861 - 600 páginas
...considered his duty, he deserved to be a champion of the right rather than an instrument of despotism. . . . A noble, commanding shape, entitled to the admiration...matured and mellowed, but still unharmed by time." But this man, gifted with all that could render him an ornament and a benefactor to his kind, must... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1861 - 602 páginas
...unscrupulous, must always command. A dark, meridional physiognomy ; a quick, alert, imposing head ; jet-black, closeclipped hair ; a bold eagle's face, with full,...matured and mellowed, but still unharmed by time."— (Vol. ip 138.) This general, who was capable of draining whole districts for the sake of taking a town,... | |
 | 1861 - 610 páginas
...command. A dark, meridional physiognomy ; a quick, alert, imposing head ; jet black, close.clipped hiiir ; a bold eagle's face, with full, bright, restless eye...matured and mellowed, but still unharmed by time.' (Vol. ip 138.) This general, who was capable of draining whole districts for the sake of taking a town,... | |
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... hand, full in the sunlight, though all the scene around him was wrapped in gloom — a noble, commanding shape, entitled to the admiration which the energetic display of great powers, however unscrupulous, must always command. A dark, meridional physiognomy,... 
