 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1814 - 736 pages
...more was to be seen than his aquiline nose and his penetrating eye. He looked like a dying man ; yet never was seen a figure of more dignity : he appeared like a being of a superior species. " He rose from his seat with slowness and difficulty, leaning on his crutches,... | |
 | Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822 - 206 pages
...matchless ardour fir'd each fear-struck mind. His genius soar'd when Britons drop'd and pin'd." GARRICK. Lord Chatham entered the House of Lords for the last...seen a figure of more dignity ; he appeared like a heing of superior species. He rose from his seat slowly, and with difficulty, leaning on his crutches,... | |
 | William Bayley (of Yorkshire.) - Anecdotes - 1824 - 392 pages
..."Thank you, my lord, you have done your worst." Judge. " No — and back again." DEATH OF LORD CHATHAM. Lord Chatham entered the House of Lords for the last time on the 7th of April, l778, leaning upon two friends. He was wrapped up in flannel, and looked pale and emaciated. His eye... | |
 | English literature - 1824 - 436 pages
...more was to be seen than his aquiline nose and his penetrating eye. He looked like a dying man ; yet never was seen a figure of more dignity : he appeared like a being of a superior species. He rose from his seat with slowness and difficulty, leaning on his crutches, and... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1828 - 618 pages
...nose, and his penetrating eye, which retained all its native fire. He looked like a dying man, yet never was seen a figure of more dignity : he appeared like a being of a superior species. The lords stood up, and made a lane for him to pass to his seat, whilst, with a... | |
 | Benjamin Waterhouse - Great Britain - 1831 - 482 pages
...rich suit of black velvet, and covered up to his knees in flannel. He looked like a dying man, yet never was seen a figure of more dignity.* He appeared like a being of superior species. The Lords stood up, and made a lane for him to pass to his seat> whilst, with a gracefulness of deportment,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 pages
...the grave, a confidence which they denied to his rival. EXERCISE 109. Death of Lord Chatham.—PERCY. Lord Chatham entered the House of Lords for the last...emaciated. His eye was still penetrating; and though with 5 the evident appearance of a dying man, there never was seen a figure of more dignity; he appeared... | |
 | Biography - 1836 - 506 pages
...more was to be seen than his aquiline nose, and his penetrating eye. He looked like a dying man ; yet never was seen a figure of more dignity ; he appeared...being of superior species. " He rose from his seat with slowness and difficulty, leaning upon his crutches, and supported under each arm by his two friends.... | |
 | Biography - 1837 - 272 pages
...more was to be seen than his aquiline nose, and his penetrating eye. He looked like a dying man ; yet never was seen a figure of more dignity ; he appeared...being of superior species. " He rose from his seat with slowness and difficulty, leaning upon his crutches, and supported under each arm by his two friends.... | |
 | George Wingrove Cooke - Great Britain - 1837 - 694 pages
...more was to be seen than his aquiline nose and his penetrating eye. He looked like a dying man, yet never was seen a figure of more dignity : he appeared like a being of a superior species. He rose from his seat with slowness and difficulty, leaning on his crutches, and... | |
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He looked like a dying man ; yet never was seen a figure of more dignity ; he appeared like a being of a superior species. 
