 His person was strong and robust : his manners rustic, not clownish ; a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity, which received part of its effect perhaps from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr Nasmyth's...  The Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Life - Стр. xlviiiавторы: Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - Страниц: 425Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Robert Burns - 1889 - Страниц: 334
...supplement to Nasmyth's well-known portrait. ' His person,' writes Scott, ' was strong and robust . . . His features are represented in Mr. Nasmyth's picture,...more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. . . There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1891 - Страниц: 412
...simplicity, which received part of its effect perhaps from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr. Nasmyth's picture...sagacious country farmer of the old Scotch school ; that is, none of your modern agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce... | |
 | 1892 - Страниц: 130
...Stevenson all follow Nasmyth, of whose portrait Sir Walter Scott said that in it Burns's features seem diminished as if seen in perspective ; — " I think...more massive than it looks in any of the portraits." There is at all events a wide disparity between the artists and the biographers. Not one of the former... | |
 | James Craig Higgins - 1893 - Страниц: 252
...simplicity, which received part of its effect perhaps from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr. Nasmyth's picture...his countenance was more massive than it looks in an3* of the portraits. I would have taken the Poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - Страниц: 620
...was strong and robust; his manner rustic, not clownish; a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity. His countenance was more massive than it looks in...portraits. I would have taken the poet, had I not known who he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the old Scotch school — the douce gv.deman who... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1895 - Страниц: 300
...simpjicjly, which received part of its effect perhaps from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr. Nasmyth's picture:...more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. I should have taken the poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1896 - Страниц: 462
...simplicity, which received part of its effect perhaps from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr Nasmyth's picture ;...sagacious country farmer of the old Scotch school ; that is, none of your modern agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the duw.e... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - Страниц: 304
...simplicity, which received part of its effect perhaps from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr. Nasmyth's picture:...more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. I should have taken the poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - Страниц: 180
...which 25 received part of its effect perhaps from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr. Nasmyth's picture:...more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. I should have 30 taken the poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - Страниц: 104
...one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr. Nasmyth's picture,1 but to me it conveys the idea that they are diminished,...more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. I should have taken the poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the... | |
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