 ... nevertheless, in attentively watching the blind man's back, it is astonishing to observe how easily and fluently he does his work. For a considerable time he is to be seen, evidently from memory, writing post-haste the omitted post towns on each letter,...  The Quarterly Review - Pagina 82geredigeerd door - 1850Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1850 - 602 pagina’s
...post-haste the omitted post towns on each letter, as rapidly as he can handle them. Now and then, as if his gaslamp had, without any apparent reason, half...just above his right ear, for half a second with the sharp-pointed black holder of liis iron pen ; however, on he goes, placing occasionally beside him,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1850 - 620 pagina’s
...post-haste the omitted post towns on each letter, as rapidly as he can handle them. Now and then, as if his gas-lamp had, without any apparent reason, half...pointed black holder of his iron pen : however, on he goes, placing occasionally beside him, at the left extremity of his desk, those letters for which... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pagina’s
...post-haste the omitted post towns on each letter, as rapidly as he can handle them. Now and then, as if his gaslamp had, without any apparent reason, half...few moments, turning it a little on this side, and tl en on that, until he suddenly deciphers it. In extreme cases, he is occasionally obliged convulsively... | |
 | 1852 - 440 pagina’s
...as he can handle them. Now and then as if his gas-lamp had without any apparent reason, half-fainted away, he holds a letter before him for a few moments,...on this side, and then on that, until he suddenly deciph ers it. In extreme cases, he is occasional]? obliged convulsively to scratch the side of his... | |
 | Sir Francis Bond Head - 1857 - 412 pagina’s
...memory, the omitted post towns on each letter, as rapidly as he can handle them. Now and then, as if his gas-lamp had, without any apparent reason, half...it a little on this side, and then on that, until by a mental spark he suddenly deciphers it. In extreme cases, he is now and then obliged convulsively... | |
 | Sir Francis Bond Head - 1857 - 416 pagina’s
...then on that, until by a mental spark he suddenly deciphers it. In extreme cases, he is now and then obliged convulsively to scratch the side of his head,...just above his right ear, for half a second with the sharp-pointed black holder of his iron pen : however, on he goes, placing occasionally beside him,... | |
 | William Tegg - 1878 - 362 pagina’s
...post-haste the omitted posttowns on each letter as rapidly as he can handle them. Now and then, as if his gas-lamp had, without any apparent reason, half...the side of his head, just above his right ear, for half-a-second with the sharp-pointed black holder of his iron pen ; however, on he goes, placing occasionally... | |
 | 1851 - 918 pagina’s
...rapidly as he can handle them. Now and then, as if his gas-lamp had, without any apparent reason, halt' fainted away, he holds a letter before him for a few...on that, until he suddenly deciphers it. In extreme eases, he is occasionally obliged convulsively to scratch the side of his head, just above his right... | |
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