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" Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, the gigantic... "
Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Page 151
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 744 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 54

1831 - 652 pages
...There are the spectacles of Burke, and the tall thin form of Langton ; the courtly sneer of Beauclerk, and the beaming smile of Garrick ; Gibbon tapping...; the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig with the scorched foretop ; the dirty hands, the naiJs bitten and pared to the quick. We see...
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Parallel Universal History: Being an Outline of the History and Biography of ...

Philip Alexander Prince - World history - 1838 - 702 pages
...tapping his snuffbox, and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foieground is that sirange figure, which is as familiar to us as the figures...coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop; the diny hands, with the nails bitten and pared to the quick. \Ve see the eyes...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 512 pages
...There are the spectacles of Burke, and the tall thin form of Laugton ; the courtly sneer of Beauclerk, and the beaming smile of Garrick ; Gibbon tapping...black worsted stockings, the gray wig with a scorched foretop ; the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We see the eyes and mouth moving...
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Containing modern history, to the outbreak of the French Revolution

Philip Alexander Prince - World history - 1843 - 776 pages
...Garrick ; Gibbon tapping his snuff-box, and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foregrovmd is that strange figure, which is as familiar to us...gigantic body ; the huge massy face-, seamed with scars of disease ; the browu coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 410 pages
...There are the spectacles of Burke, and the tall thin form of Langton; the courtly sneer of Beauclerk, and the beaming smile of Garrick; Gibbon tapping his...foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to'us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up—the gigantic body, the huge massy...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...There are the spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Langton ; the courtly sneer of Beauclerk >;Ǎ-LUsy 3B G, 咾 ) hq i6(ؒG I3 Q j 8 3 fignre which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up — the...
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The London Anecdotes for All Readers ...

Charles Maybury Archer - Anecdotes - 1848 - 292 pages
...form of Langton ; the courtly sneer of Beauclerc, and the beaming smile of Garrick ; Gibbon topping his snuffbox, and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his...; the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig, with the scorched foretop ; the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We...
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The Companion: After-dinner Table-talk

Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1850 - 196 pages
...form of Langton ; the courtly sneer of Beauclerc, and the beaming smile of Garrick; Gibbon rapping his snuffbox, and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his...the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with scars of disease ; the brown coat, the black worsted stockings ; the gray wig, with the scorched foretop...
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The Modern British Essayists: Macaulay, T.B. Essays

English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...are the ' spectacles of Burke and the tall thin form of Lington ; the courtly sneer of Beauclerk arid rt with the mannerism of Milton or of Burke. But a...such is the mannerism of Jahnson. The characteristic foretop ; the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We ģee the eyes and mouth moving...
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Lights and Shadows of Artist Life and Character

James Smith - Art - 1853 - 448 pages
...There are the spectacles of Burke, and the tall thin form of Langton; the courtly sneer of Beauclerc, and the beaming smile of Garrick ; Gibbon, tapping...disease; the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig, with the scorched foretop ; the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick. We...
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