 The sixth age shifts into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, with spectacles on nose and pouch on side; his youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide for his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, turning again towards childish treble, pipes and whistles...  Waverley novels. (Library ed.). - 397 ページsir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) 著 - 1853全文表示 - この書籍について
 | 1828 - 488 ページ
...nose, and pouch at side; His youthful hose well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big, manly voice. Turning again towards childish treble, pipes And whistles in the sound." Little more can be added to tliis. He now lives upon a prescribed diet, and finds a stick really necessary,... | |
 | 1828 - 500 ページ
...labor, heart oppressing age, Then death with ruthless hand shuts up the scene. Wakefield's Virgil. His big manly voice Turning again towards childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. With the contraction of the body, the voice necessarily becomes feeble and impaired ; its... | |
 | William Scott - 1829 - 420 ページ
...nose, and pouch on side; His youthful hose well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again towards childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second Childishness, and... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 ページ
...nose, and pouch on side ; His youthful hose well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again towards childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound : Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness, and... | |
 | John Evans - 1834 - 306 ページ
...characteristic of the Pantaloon or Old Man, is not less appropriate than those already specified : His big manly voice, Turning again towards childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound ! The variation which age effects in the human frame, occasions the voice to be feeble and... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 ページ
...and pouch on side ; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shanks ; and his big manly voice, Turning again towards childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness, and... | |
 | 1847 - 540 ページ
...pledge of peace, when grief may cease, And joy light after years. FRY'S Leonora. AGE. 1. . — And his big manly voice, Turning again towards childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. SHAKSPEARE. 3. When forty winters shall besiege your brow, And dig deep trenches in thy... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 ページ
...and pouch on side ; His youthful hose well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shanks ; and his Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness, and... | |
 | Alfred Gatty - 1848 - 144 ページ
...its original tone. But in the conversation of any old playmate, he will at once discover that " His big manly voice, Turning again towards childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound." A something indeed which is recognisable in tbe sound of the voice may have heen left,... | |
 | M. A - 1848 - 878 ページ
...circumstances, do him the justice to declare that he is the most wonderful divine of his age, though — " His big, manly voice, Turning again towards childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound." We still bad no notion that he was a bicentenarian — a loyal subject of the first Charles,... | |
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