 | 1861 - 594 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - Presbyterianism - 1861 - 790 pages
...the Prince of Parma, whose sharp and resolute portrait greets us as we open the first volume. " He was never more truly heroic than in this position...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,... | |
 | 1861 - 624 pages
...Motley's portrait of Alexander of Parma is one of the most striking passages in these volumes :— ' Untiring, uncomplaining, thoughtful of others, prodigal...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 - English literature - 1861 - 630 pages
...fear Untiring, uncomplaining, thoughtful of others, prodigal of himself, generous, modest, bravo ; with so much intellect and so much devotion to what...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... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - Generals - 1861 - 564 pages
...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, He in a narrow circle, at distances from each other varying from five miles to thirty, and are all... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1861 - 600 pages
...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 - American periodicals - 1861 - 602 pages
...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,... | |
 | English literature - 1861 - 610 pages
...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,... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - Presbyterianism - 1861 - 792 pages
...rarely reposing, always ready, never alarmed; living in the saddle, with harness on his back—such was the Prince of Parma; matured and mellowed, but still unharmed by time." And this is a portrait of the Virgin Queen : "She was then in the fiftythird year of her age, and considered... | |
 | Henry H. Lancaster - English literature - 1876 - 512 pages
...his conceptions into reality, with the aid of an iron nature, which never knew fatigue or fear. . . . Untiring, uncomplaining, thoughtful of others, prodigal...matured and mellowed, but still unharmed by time." — Vol. i. pp. 135-8. The cause which Parma maintained was hateful ; the stage on which he acted was... | |
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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,... 
