 Advocate, or Parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back him at first sight against all the extant world. The tanned complexion, that amorphous crag-like face ; the dull black eyes under their precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces, needing...  The North American Review - Side 4421883Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1884 - 550 sider
...is a portrait of Webster. "As a logic-fencer, advocate or parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back him, at first sight, against all the extant...accurately closed: I have not traced as much of silent Berserkir rage, that I remember of. in any other man." Lord Coleridge's speech at the Irving banquet... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1870 - 766 sider
...the extant world. The tanned complexion; that amorphous craglike face; the dull black eyes under the precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces needing only to be blown ; the mastiff mouth, accurately closed ; I have not traced so much of silent Berserkir rage that I remember... | |
 | Horatio Alger - 1882 - 336 sider
...logic-fencer, advocate or parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back him at first sight against the extant world. The tanned complexion, that amorphous crag-like face, the dull black eyes under the precipice of brows [I am sure no one ever called Mr. Webster's eyes dull before or since], like... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1883 - 416 sider
...Limbs we make in Yankeeland ! As a Logic-fencer, Advocate, or Parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back him at first sight against all the extant...anthracite furnaces, needing only to be blown; the mastiff -mouth, accurately closed: — I have not traced as much of silent Berserkir-rage, that I remember... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1883 - 394 sider
...Limbs we make in Yankeeland ! As a Logic-fencer, Advocate, or Parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back him at first sight against all the extant...anthracite furnaces, needing only to be blown ; the mastiff -mouth, accurately closed : — I have not traced as much of gilent Berserkir-rage, that I... | |
 | George Bentley - 1883 - 180 sider
...eyes, cruel, sorrowful, and that sardonic shelf-chin." Here is a fine portrait of Daniel Webster : " The tanned complexion, that amorphous crag-like face...anthracite furnaces, needing only to be blown, the mastiff mouth accurately closed." All this may have been apparent to all who saw Webster, but it required... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1883 - 400 sider
...such limbs we make in Yankee land !' As a logic fencer, or parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back him at first sight against all the extant...amorphous crag-like face ; the dull black eyes under the precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces needing only to be blown ; the mastiff mouth... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1883 - 390 sider
...extant world. The tanned complexion ; that amorphous crag-like face ; the dull black eyes under the precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces needing only to be blown ; the mastiff mouth accurately closed; I have not traced so much of silent Berserkir rage that I remember... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1884 - 314 sider
...Webster. " As a logic-fencer, advocate, or parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back him, at firut sight, against all the extant world. The tanned complexion...like dull anthracite furnaces, needing only to be bloum ; the mastiff-mouth accurately closed ; I have not traced as much of silent Benerlrir rage, that... | |
 | 1883 - 896 sider
...sky-messenger alighted at Craigenputtock, and vanished in the blue again : " Daniel Webster, with " the tanned complexion, that amorphous, crag-like face...only to be blown; the mastiffmouth accurately closed " : John Kuskin " copiously and desperately pouring [fierce lightning bolts] into the black world of... | |
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