 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 стор.
...me, FolIy's misfortune in the first degree. that they are diminished, as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was more massive than it looks...sagacious country farmer of the old Scotch school; that is, none of your modern agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce guidman... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 стор.
...Nasmyth's picture : but to me it conveys the idea that they are diminished, as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was 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 - 1857 - 556 стор.
...Nasmyth's picture : but to me it conveys the idea that they are diminished, as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraitB. I should have taken the poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious country... | |
 | James White - 1858 - 316 стор.
...Nasmyth's picture, but to me it conveys an idea that they are diminished, as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of its portraits. I would have taken the poet, had I not known who he was, for a very sagacious country... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 216 стор.
...Nasmyth's picture: but to me it conveys the idea that they are diminished, as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was 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... | |
 | James White - 1859 - 108 стор.
...Nasmyth's picture, but to me it conveys an idea that they are diminished, as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of its portraits. I would have taken the poet, had I not known who he was, for a very sagacious country... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1861 - 338 стор.
...Nasmyth's picture, but to me it conveys the idea that they are diminished as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. I would have taken the poet,,had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the old Scotch school —... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1866 - 356 стор.
...Naemyth's picture, but to me it conveys the idea, that they are diminished, as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was more massive than it looks...sagacious country farmer of the old Scotch school, ie none of your modern agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce gudeman... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 434 стор.
...Nasmyth's picture : but to me it conveys the idea that they are diminished, as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was 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... | |
 | 1869 - 634 стор.
...correspondent. He says it gives the features, "but diminishes them as if they were seen in jwrspective. I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits." Allan Cunningham, who was in Dumfries, a boy of twelve, when the poet died, and had been in the habit... | |
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... clownish ; a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity, which received part of its effect, perhaps, from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. 
