| Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 ページ
...admitted to familiarity with those whose rank or station made them most conspicuous. . . . He is said to have been beautiful in his infancy ; but he was of a constitution originally feeble and weak ; and as bodies of a tender frame are easily distorted, his... | |
| Barrett Harper Clark - 1928 - 1452 ページ
...compared himself to a spider, and by another is described as protuberant behind and before. He is said to have been beautiful in his infancy; but he was of a constitution originally feeble and weak; and. as bodies of a tender frame are easily distorted, his... | |
| Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 ページ
...range of Johnson's references become more and more inclusive, from the observation that "He is said to have been beautiful in his infancy; but he was of a constitution originally feeble and weak" (para. 155), to the recognition that "The indulgence and accommodation... | |
| Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 ページ
...Traces of the bodily impact on Pope's writing are everywhere in the life: "he was of a constitution originally feeble and weak, and as bodies of a tender frame are easily distorted his deformity was probably in part the effect of his application" (para. 255).4:1... | |
| Barbara Murphy, Estelle M. Rankin - 2007 - 306 ページ
...compared himself to a spider and, by another, is described as protuberant behind and before. He is said to have been beautiful in his infancy, but he was of a constitution feeble and weak. As bodies of a tender frame are easily distorted, his deformity was probably... | |
| 1859 - 846 ページ
...hunchback of Twickenham." He is said to have been beautiful in infancy; he was, however, of a constitution originally feeble and weak; and as bodies of a tender frame are easily distorted, his deformity was probably in part the effect of his application. His stature was... | |
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