 | John Knox Laughton - 1900 - 326 pagina’s
...general quaintness of his figure, and produced an appearance which particularly attracted my notice ; for I had never seen anything like it before, nor could...enthusiasm when speaking on professional subjects that showed he was no common being. Nelson after this went with us to the West Indies, and served under... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1902 - 388 pagina’s
...tail of extraordinary length ; making altogether so remarkable a figure, " that," says the duke, " I had never seen anything like it before, nor could I imagine who he was, nor what he came about. But his address and conversation were irresistibly pleasing ; and when he spoke on professional subjects,... | |
 | Gilbert Parker, Claude Glennon Bryan - 1904 - 586 pagina’s
...extraordinary length, he made altogether so remarkable a figure that, to use the Prince's own words," I had never seen anything like it before, nor could I imagine who he was nor what he came about. But his address and conversation were irresistibly pleasing; and when he spoke on professional subjects,... | |
 | Gilbert Parker, Claude Glennon Bryan - 1903 - 590 pagina’s
...extraordinary length, he made altogether so remarkable a figure that, to use the Prince's own words, " I had never seen anything like it before, nor could I imagine who he was nor what he came about. But his address and conversation were irresistibly pleasing; and when he spoke on professional subjects,... | |
 | Sophia Penn Page Shaler - 1906 - 376 pagina’s
...tied in a stiff Hessian tail of extraordinary length, making altogether so remarkable a figure that I had never seen anything like it before, nor could I imagine who he was or what he came about; but his address and conversation were irresistibly pleasing, and when he spoke... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Walter Morris - 1906 - 1076 pagina’s
...lank unpowdered hair, and a dress which " added to the general quaintness of his appearance," but " irresistibly pleasing in his address, and conversation,...enthusiasm, when speaking on professional subjects, that showed he was no common being." The Duke was not, perhaps, a man of uncommon powers of observation,... | |
 | John Knox Laughton - 1919 - 260 pagina’s
...general quaintness of his figure, and produced an appearance which particularly attracted my notice ; for I had never seen anything like it before, nor could...enthusiasm when speaking on professional subjects that showed he was no common being. Nelson after this went with us to the West Indies, and served under... | |
 | Colin White - 2002 - 380 pagina’s
...ever beheld,' whose old-fashioned uniform and pigtail made him look quaint. 'My doubts however were removed when Lord Hood introduced me to him. There...enthusiasm, when speaking on professional subjects, which showed he was no common being.'67 Fifteen years later, Lady Spencer, wife of the First Lord of... | |
 | Edgar Vincent - 2003 - 654 pagina’s
...general quaintness of his figure, and produced an appearance which particularly attracted my notice; for I had never seen anything like it before, nor could...enthusiasm when speaking on professional subjects, that showed he was no common being.30 Hood had taken an immediate liking to Nelson, who told Locker,... | |
 | John Sugden - 2004 - 984 pagina’s
...figure, and produced an appearance which particularly attracted my notice, for I had never seen any thing like it before, nor could I imagine who he was, nor...enthusiasm when speaking on professional subjects that showed he was no common being ... I found him warmly attached to my father, and singularly humane... | |
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I had never seen anything like it before, nor could I imagine who he was, nor what he came about. My doubts were, however, removed when Lord Hood introduced me to him. There was something irresistibly pleasing in his address and conversation ; and an... 
