 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1846 - Počet stránok 588
...bloated by drink that I might have exclaimed with Ovid — Accedant capiti cornua Bacchus eris.* * But there was a worse sight than this : there was...a wreck. In fact, he was a melancholy spectacle of a fallen man — of one over whom all the storms of life seemed to be engendered in one dark cloud."... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1860 - Počet stránok 486
...round-shouldered, decrepit, tottering, old-young man, if I may be allowed such a term, and so bloated by drink ! But there was a worse sight than this — there was...done to the other, and it was at once apparent that the whole was a wreck. In fact, he was a melancholy spectacle of fallen man." I will not pain myself... | |
 | John Timbs - 1866 - Počet stránok 366
...round-shouldered, decrepit, tottering, old-young man, if I may be allowed such a term, and so bloated by drink ! But there was a worse sight than this — there was...done to the other, and it was at once apparent that the whole was a wreck. In fact, he was a melancholy spectacle of fallen man." It appeared that Mytton... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1869 - Počet stránok 428
...round-shouldered, decrepit, tottering, old-young man, if I may be allowed such a term, and so bloated by drink ! But there was a worse sight than this— there was a mind as well as a body in ruina ; the one had partaken of the injury done to the other, and it was at once apparent that the... | |
 | Nimrod - 1915 - Počet stránok 270
...descriptions. who haunted and followed him wherever he went. "Aceedant capiti cornua, Bacchus eris."1 But there was a worse sight than this. There was a...and it was at once apparent that all was a wreck. - ID fact, he was a melancholy spectacle of fallen man — of one, over whom all the storms of life... | |
 | Robert Smith Surtees, Edward William Dirom Cuming - 1924 - Počet stránok 372
...describes Mytton, on his appearance at his door in Calais, as that of a " melancholy spectacle of a fallen man — of one over whom all the storms of life seemed to be engendered in one dark cloud." Mr Mytton died in 1834, and Nimrod forthwith proceeded to write his life. His original thought was... | |
 | 1893 - Počet stránok 490
...wind; there stood before me a round-shouldered, decrepid, tottering, oM-yoitni/ man, bloated by drink. But there was a worse sight than this. There was a mind as well as a body in ruins ; in fact, a melancholy spectacle of fallen man— of one over whom all the storms of life seemed to... | |
 | 1893 - Počet stránok 490
...this. There was a mind as well as a body in ruins ; in fact, a melancholy spectacle of fallen man—of one over whom all the storms of life seemed to be engendered in one dark •cloud." This is practically the end, for the remaining scenes are those of one whose real individuality is... | |
| |
But there was a worse sight than this : there was a mind, as well as a body, in ruins ; the one had partaken of the injury done to the other, and it was at once apparent that all was a wreck. In fact, he was a melancholy spectacle of a fallen man —... 