All the portraits of him are singularly characteristic. No person can look on the features, noble even to ruggedness, the dark furrows of the cheek, the haggard and woM stare ol the eye, the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip, and doubt that they... The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete - Page 21by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871Full view - About this book
| 1835 - 932 pages
...the features, noble even to ruggedness, the dark furrows of the cheek, the haggard and woful stare of the eye, the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip, and doubt that they belonged to a man too proud and too sensitive to be happy. Milton was, like Danle, a statesman and... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...the features, noble even to ruggedness, the dark furrows of the cheek, the haggard and woful stare of the eye, the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip, and doubt that they belonged to a man too proud and too sensitive to be happy. Milton was, like Dante, a statesman, and... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1841 - 586 pages
...stare of the eye, the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip, and doubt that they belonged to a man too sensitive to be happy. ' Milton was, like Dante, a statesman and a lover, and like Dante had been unfortunate in ambition and love. He had survived his health and his sight, the comforts of... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1841 - 608 pages
...on the features, noble to ruggedness, the dark furrows of the cheek, the haggard and woful stare of the eye, the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip, and doubt that they belonged to a man too sensitive to be happy. ' Milton was, like Dante, a statesman and a lover, and... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...woful stare of the eye, the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip, and doubt that they belonged to a man too proud and too sensitive to be happy. Milton was, like Dante, a statesman and a lover—and, like Dante, he had been unfortunate in ambition and in love. He had survived his health... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...the features, noble even to ruggedness, the dark furrows of the cheek, the haggard and woful stare of the eye. the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip, and doubt that they belonged to a man too proud and too sensitive to be happy. Milton was, like Dante, a statesman and... | |
| George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 pages
...features, noble even to ruggedness, the dark furrows of the cheek, the haggard and woeful stare of the eye, the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip, and doubt that they belonged to a man too proud and too sensitive to be happy. Milton was, like Dante, a statesman and... | |
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...the features, noble even to ruggedness, the dark furrows of the cheek, the haggard and woful stare of the eye, the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip, and doubt that they belonged to a man too proud and too sensitive to be happy. Milton was, like Dante, a statesman and... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...the features, noble even to ruggedness, the dark furrows of the cheek, the haggard and woful stare of of great events, he returned from his travels, in the prime of health and belonged to a man too proud and too sensitive to be liappv. Milton was, like Dante, a statesman and... | |
| George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 396 pages
...features, noble even to ruggedness, the dark furrows of the cheek, the haggard and woeful stare of the eye, the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip, and doubt that they belonged to a man too proud and too sensitive to be happy. Milton was, like Dante, a statesman and... | |
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