 ... D'Israeli on my mind as the most wonderful talker I have ever had the fortune to meet. He is anything but a declaimer. You would never think him on stilts. If he catches himself in a rhetorical sentence, he mocks at it in the next breath. He is satirical,...  A L'abri: Or The Tent Pitch'd - Page 51by Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1839 - 172 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1839 - 196 pages
...the ribands of a four-in-hand. And, if so coarse a figure can illustrate it, he took the n Slip-hand like a master. It was an appeal to his opinion on...that D'Israeli's is the most intellectual face in En. gland — pale, regular, and overshadowed with the most luxuriant masses of raven. black hair ;... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1849 - 392 pages
...sentence, he mocks at it in the next breath. He is satirical, contemptuous, pathetic, humorous, .everything in a moment ; and his conversation on any subject...and overshadowed with the most luxuriant masses of raven-black hair ; and you will scarce wonder that, meeting him for the first time, Lord Durham was,... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 396 pages
...sentence, he mocks at it in the next breath. He is satirical, contemptuous, pathetic, humorous, everything in a moment ; and his conversation on any subject...face in England — pale, regular, and overshadowed v.'ith the most luxuriant masses of raven-black hair; and you will scarce wonder that, meeting him... | |
 | William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle - 1910 - 468 pages
...at it in the next breath. He is satirical, contemptuous, pathetic, humorous, everything in a moment. Add to this that Disraeli's is the most intellectual...and overshadowed with the most luxuriant masses of raven-black hair, and you will scarce wonder that meeting him for the first time Lord Durham was impressed.... | |
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