| Washington Irving - 1849 - 276 páginas
...dissipated indulgence, which brought this mistaken little bird to an untimely end. Portrait of a Dutchman. HE was exactly five feet six inches in height, and...inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere ; indeed, of such stupendous dimensions was it, that dame Nature herself would have been puzzled to... | |
| Richard Henry Dana - 1850 - 484 páginas
...been moulded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and...inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, far excelling in magnitude that of the great Pericles (who was thence waggishly called Schenocephalus,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1851 - 476 páginas
...been moulded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and...circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions, that dame Nature with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 páginas
...been moulded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and...inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, far excelling in magnitude that of the great Pericles (who was thence waggishly called, Schenacephalus,... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1854 - 884 páginas
...us a portraiture of this " model of majesty and lordly grandeur," as he affectionately calls him. " He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and...circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions, that dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled... | |
| Popular educator - 1854 - 922 páginas
...some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five five leet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in...circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions, that dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled... | |
| Washington Irving - 1855 - 268 páginas
...dissipated indulgence, which brought this mistaken little bird to an untimely end. Portrait of a Dutchman. HE was exactly five feet six inches in height, and...inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere; indeed, of such stupendous dimensions was it, that dame Nature herself would have been puzzled to construct... | |
| 1856 - 428 páginas
...been moulded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and...circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions, that dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled... | |
| 1897 - 404 páginas
...and of showers, A grief and gladness in the atmosphere. — //. W. Longfellow. Governor Van Twill« He was exactly five feet six inches in height and...circumference. His head was a perfect sphere and of such stupendous dimensions that dame nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled... | |
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