 Duncan, who had not patience to have a sober chat interrupted by my shouting forth this ditty. Methinks I now see his tall thin emaciated figure, his legs cased in clasped gambadoes, and his face of a length that would have rivalled the Knight of La Mancha's,...  LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT. - Side 11af REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN, DUNDEE - 1871Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Robert Walsh - 1837 - 504 sider
...his face of a length that would have rivalled the Knight of La Mancha's, and hear him exclaiming, ' One may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon as where that child is.' With this little acidity, which was natural to him, he was a most excellent and benevolent man, a gentleman... | |
 | 1838 - 728 sider
...Stentorian vociferation, as to draw from the minister of a neighbouring kirk, the testy exclamation, " One may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon, as where that child is." On his removal to Edinburgh, in his eighth year, he was subjected to different influences. His worthy... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 426 sider
...his face of a length that would have rivalled the Knight of La Mancha's, and hear him exclaiming, " One may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon as where that child is." With this little acidity, which was natural to him, he was a most excellent and benevolent man, a gentleman... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 422 sider
...his face of a length that would have rivalled the Knight of La Mancha's, and hear him exclaiming, " One may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon as where that child is." With this little acidity, which was natural to him, he was a most excellent and benevolent man, a gentleman... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1845 - 662 sider
...stentorian vociferation, as to draw from the minister of a neighbouring kirk the testy exclamation, " One may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon as where that child is." On his removal to Edinburgh, in his eighth year, he was subjected to different influences. His worthy... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1845 - 374 sider
...Stentorian vociferation, as to draw from the minister of a neighbouring kirk, the testy exclamation, " One may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon, as where that child is." On his removal to Edinburgh, in his eighth year, he was subjected to different influences. His worthy... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 612 sider
...his face of a length that would have rivalled the Knight of La Mancha' s, and hear him exclaiming, " One may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon as where that child is." With this little acidity, whicli was natural to him, he Was a most excellent and benevolent man, a... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 428 sider
...his face of a length that would have rivalled the Knight of La Mancha's, and hear him exclaiming, " One may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon as where that child is." With this little aeidity, which was natural to him, he was a most excellent and benevolent man, a gentleman... | |
 | J. D. Bell - 1850 - 488 sider
...fourteen, William Pitt was, "in intellect, a man." Said a clergyman of Walter Scott, when he was a boy, " One may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon, as where that child is." Thomas De Quincey, when but fifteen years old, could converse fluently in Greek. " That boy," said... | |
 | Xavier Donald MacLeod - 1852 - 324 sider
...who used to say when Walter interrupted his sober converse by shouting out the deeds of Hardyknute, " One may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon as where that child is." A good old man the doctor, and had known Pope and other worthies of the age of Queen Anne. Sheep-skins... | |
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