 | Ann Radcliffe - 1820 - 238 ページ
...to understand that obscurity, as Burke has asserted, is a strong ingredient in the sublime : — a face shrowded in a cowl ; a narrative suddenly suspended...figure for the painter to transfer to the canvass j perhaps some picture might originally have suggested it. The scene where this singular character... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1824 - 820 ページ
...the deep lines of his countenance ; and his eyes were so piercing, that they seemed to penetrate, at a single glance, into the hearts of men, and to read...their scrutiny, / or even endure to meet them twice. Yet, notwithstanding all this gloom and austerity, some rare occasions of interest had called forth... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825 - 554 ページ
...the deep lines of his countenance; and his eyes were so piercing, that they seemed to penetrate, at a single glance, into, the hearts of men, and to read...their scrutiny, or even endure to meet them twice. Yet notwithstanding all this gloom and austerity, some rare occasions of interest had called forth... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 506 ページ
...deep lines of his countenance ; ' and his eyes were so piercing, that they seemed to penetrate, at a single glance, into the hearts of men, and to read...their scrutiny, or even endure to meet them twice." Yet, notwithstanding all this gloom and austerity, some rare occasions of interest had called forth... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 484 ページ
...the deep lines of his countenance ;1 and his eyes were so piercing, that they seemed to penetrate, at a single glance, into the hearts of men, and to read...their scrutiny, or even endure to meet them twice.' Yet, notwithstanding all this gloom and austerity, some rare occasions of interest had called forth... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 492 ページ
...the deep lines of his countenance;! and his eyes were so piercing, that they seemed to penetrate, at a single glance, into the hearts of men, and to read...support their scrutiny, or even endure to meet them twice.8 Yet, notwithstanding all this gloom and austerity, some rare occasions of interest had called... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 ページ
...tne deep lines of his countenance; and his eyes were so piercing, that they seemed to penetrate, at a single glance, into the hearts of men, and to read...their scrutiny, or even endure to meet them twice. Yet notwithstanding all this gloom and austerity, some rare occasions of interest had called forth... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 ページ
...; and hi» eyes were so piercing, that they seemed td penetrate, at a singlo glance, into the beans of men, and to read their most secret thoughts; few...their scrutiny, or even endure to meet them twice. Yet, notwithstanding all this gloom and austerity, some rare occasions of interest had called forth... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1865 - 328 ページ
...the deep lines of his countenance, and his eyes were so piercing that they seemed to penetrate, at a single glance, into the hearts of men, and to read...their scrutiny, or even endure to meet them twice. Yet, notwithstanding all this gloom and austerity, some rare occasions of interest had called forth... | |
 | Ann Radcliffe - 1877 - 696 ページ
...the deep lines of his countenance ; and his eyes were so piercing that they seemed to penetrate, at a single glance, into the hearts of men, and to read...their scrutiny, or even endure to meet them twice. Yet, notwithstanding all this gloom and austerity, some rare occasions of interest had called forth... | |
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It bore the traces of many passions, which seemed to have fixed the features they no longer animated. An habitual gloom and severity prevailed over the deep lines of his countenance, and his eyes were so piercing that they seemed to penetrate, at a single... 
