 | 1822 - 1148 Seiten
...His "lil desire to please is still express'd ; His hat's well cock'd, his perriwig's well ilress'd : He rolls his stockings still, white gloves he wears,...parts, he yet Grasps at the shade of his departed wit.)'—vol. i. pp. 74,75. With equal truth and still more spirit is touched the character of Lord... | |
 | 1823 - 582 Seiten
...in fighting : His old desire to please is still e.xpress'd ; His hat's well cock'd, his perriwig's well dress'd : He rolls his stockings still, white...he yet Grasps at the shade of his departed wit.)" — vol. i. pp. 74, 75. With equal truth and still more spirit is touched the character of Lord Lovel,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1823 - 580 Seiten
...was in fighting : His old desire to please is still express'd ; His bat's well cock'd, his perriwig's well dress'd : He rolls his stockings still, white...he yet Grasps at the shade of his departed wit.)' — vol. i. pp. 74,, 75. With equal truth and still more spirit is touched the character of Lord Lovel,... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1833 - 466 Seiten
...corners cast their rays, " Still he looks cheerful, still soft things he says, " And still remembering that he once was young, " He strains his crippled knees, and struts along." — D.) I did not go into the country last week, as I intended, the weather was so bad ; but I shall... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 596 Seiten
...corners cast their rays, Still he looks cheerful, still soft things he says, And still remembering that he once was young, He strains his crippled knees, and struts along." — D.) barefaced to commend their honesty. Then Mr. Nugent has had a great deal of wit till within... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1857 - 586 Seiten
...corners cast their rays, Still he looks cheerful, still soft things he says, And still remembering that he once was young, He strains his crippled knees, and struts along." — Sir C. II. Williams.— DOVER. Lovel,1 that they should have carried it, if they had set up two... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 Seiten
...corners cast their rays, Still he bows graceful, still soft things he says : And, still remembering that he once was young, He strains his crippled knees and struts along. The room he entered smiling, which bespoke Some worn-out compliment or threadbare joke ; For, not perceiving loss... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 362 Seiten
...corners cast their rays, Still he bows graceful, still soft things he says ; And, still remembering that he once was young, He strains his crippled knees and struts along. The room he entered smiling, which bespoke Some worn-out compliment or threadbare joke, For, not perceiving loss... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 Seiten
...corners cast their rays. Still he hows graceful, ."till s. ft things he says: And, still remembering that he once was young, He strains his crippled knees and struts along. The room, he entered smiling, which bespoke Some worn-out compliment or threadbare joke; For,1 not perceiving loss... | |
 | 1882 - 782 Seiten
...corners cast their rays, Still he looks cheerful, still soft things he says ; And still remembering that he once was young, He strains his crippled knees and struts along. Mrs. Oldfield's histrionic repertory numbers upwards of eighty characters. DUTTON COOK. THE POETS'... | |
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His hat's well cock'd, his perriwig's well dress'd : He rolls his stockings still, white gloves he wears, And in the boxes with the beaux appears ; His eyes through wrinkled corners cast their rays ; Still he bows graceful, still soft things he says :... 
