 Webster, leaning back at his ease, telling stories, cracking jokes, shaking the sofa with burst after burst of laughter, or smoothly discoursing to the perfect felicity of the logical part of one's constitution, would illuminate an evening now and then....  Famous Americans of Recent Times - Сторінка 151автори: James Parton - 1877 - 473 стор.Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 466 стор.
...man. " Harriet Martineau says " he would illuminate an evening by telling stories, cracking jokes, or smoothly discoursing to the perfect felicity of the logical part of one's constitution." Ticknor, who was so impressed with the majestic delivery of the orator, speaks of his being " as gay... | |
 | Elbridge Streeter Brooks - 1899 - 418 стор.
...Senate, that tall, straight, unbending South Carolinian, a "castriron man," Miss Martineau called him, " who looks as if he had never been born and could never be extinguished." Above a straight, clear forehead rises the stiff shock of upright, dark hair ; the eyes sire intense,... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - 1905 - 550 стор.
...tone," amazing her with his moderation. Webster is there, "leaning back at his ease, telling stories, or smoothly discoursing to the perfect felicity of the logical part of one's constitution." Calhoun would come in for a short while "and leave us to take to pieces his close, rapid, theoretical,... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1907 - 682 стор.
...estimate and speech which so impetuous a nature has been able to attain. Mr. Webster, leaning back at his ease, telling stories, cracking jokes, shaking...extinguished, would come in sometimes to keep our understanding on a painful stretch for a short while, and leave us to take to pieces his close, rapid,... | |
 | William Montgomery Meigs - 1917 - 676 стор.
...I, p. 2oo. 1 Harriet Martineau (" Retrospect of Foreign Travel," Vol. I, p. 243) speaks of him as " the cast-iron man who looks as if he had never been born, and never could be extinguished " ; but she had no comprehension of him and fell into some awful errors.... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1919 - 454 стор.
...estimate and speech which so impetuous a nature had been able to attain. Mr. Webster, leaning back at his ease, telling stories, cracking jokes, shaking...extinguished, would come in sometimes to keep our understanding on a painful stretch for a short while, and leave us to take to pieces his close, rapid,... | |
 | Claude Gernade Bowers - 1922 - 560 стор.
...hand," discoursing "for many hours in his even, soft, deliberative tone"; of Webster, "leaning back at his ease, telling stories, cracking jokes, shaking...felicity of the logical part of one's constitution"; of Calhoun, the "cast iron man," who "looked as if he had never been born," no longer capable of mental... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle - 1926 - 468 стор.
...of estimate and speech which so impetuous a nature has been able to attain. Mr Webster, leaning back at his ease, telling stories, cracking jokes, shaking...cast-iron man who looks as if he had never been born, and never could be extinguished, would come in sometimes to keep our understandings on a painful stretch... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle - 1926 - 470 стор.
...impetuous a nature has been able to attain. Mr Webster, leaning back at his ease, telling stories, craoking jokes, shaking the sofa with burst after burst of...cast-iron man who looks as if he had never been born, and never could be extinguished, would come in sometimes to keep our understandings on a painful stretch... | |
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