| William John Pinks - 1860 - 156 sider
...tenant with a brush removed it, and the names upon the walls came out as fresh as ever. This was " the garrulous old lady," with a frosty red face, lighted...hair curling from under an exceedingly dirty cap, and who, as Washington Irving tells us, was particularly assiduous in exhibiting the relics, which... | |
| Allen Hayden Weld - 1860 - 136 sider
...universal homage of mankind to the great poet of nature. 3. The house is shown by a garrulous old lady, in a frosty red face, lighted up by a cold, blue, anxious...curling from under an exceedingly dirty cap. She was peculiarly assiduous in exhibiting the relics with which this, like all other celebrated shrines, abounds.... | |
| Washington Irving - 1865 - 518 sider
...universal homage of mankind to the great poet of nature. The house is shown by a garrulous old lady, in a frosty red face, lighted up by a cold blue anxious...curling from under an exceedingly dirty cap. She was peculiarly assiduous in exhibiting the relics with which this, like all other celebrated shrines, abounds.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1870 - 740 sider
...conditions, from the prince to the peasant ; and present a simple but striking instance of the spontaneous homage of mankind to the great poet of nature. The...hair, curling from under an exceedingly dirty cap." Poor Mrs Hart ; — she was no very congenial representative of the Shakespeare family. " She was peculiarly... | |
| Appleton D. and co - 1870 - 746 sider
...spontaneous and universal homage of mankind to the great poet of nature. The house in >ya is eye, ana garnished with artificial locks of flaxen hair, curling from under an exceedingly dirty cap. She was peculiarly assiduous in exhibiting the relics with which this, like all other celebrated shrines, abounds.... | |
| John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 sider
...universal homage of mankind to the great poet of nature. The house is shown by a garrulous old lady, in a frosty red face, lighted up by a cold, blue, anxious...curling from under an exceedingly dirty cap. She was peculiarly assiduous in exhibiting the relics with, which this, like all other celebrated shrines,... | |
| Evan Thomas Davies - 1876 - 232 sider
...Battle of Waterloo." Washington Irving, in the Sketch Book, describes her as " A garrulous old lady, in a frosty red face, lighted up by a cold blue anxious...hair, curling from under an exceedingly dirty cap." He says, " I wenteven so far as willingly to believe the claims of mine hostess to a lineal descent... | |
| 1878 - 722 sider
...universal homage of mankind to the great poet of nature. The house is shown by a S»rrulous old lady, in a frosty red face, lighted up by a cold blue anxious eye, and garnished with the tomb ! There was an ample supply also, of Shakespeare's mulberry tree, which Hecins to have an... | |
| Moffatt and Paige - 1880 - 414 sider
...universal homage of mankind to the great poet of nature. The house is shown by a 'garrulous old lady, in a frosty red face, lighted up by a cold blue anxious...curling from under an exceedingly dirty cap. She was peculiarly 8assiduous in exhibiting the relics with which this, like all other celebrated shrines,... | |
| Washington Irving - 1880 - 460 sider
...universal homage of mankind to 1he great poet of nature. The house is shown by a garrulous old lady in a frosty red face, lighted up by a cold blue anxious...curling from under an exceedingly dirty cap. She was peculiarly assiduous in exhibiting the relics with which this, like all other celebrated shrines, abounds.... | |
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