 You could see the first dawn of an idea stealing slowly over his countenance, climbing up by little and little, with a painful process, till it cleared up at last to the fulness of a twilight conception — its highest meridian. He seemed to keep back...  The British Critic: A New Review - Page 841823Full view - About this book
 | 1822 - 734 pages
...pulsation. The balloon takes less time hi filling, than it took to cover the expansion of his Tbroad moony 'face over all its quarters with expression. A glimmer of understanding would appear in a frothily pert in Tattle, во impotently busy in Backbite ; so blankly dlveSbed of all meaning, or... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 pages
...conception — its highest meridian. He seemed to keep back his intellect, as some have had the power to retard their pulsation. The balloon takes less time...a long time in communicating it to the remainder. 1 am ill at dates, but I think It is now better than five and twenty years ago, that walking in the... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 624 pages
...conception — its highest meridian. He seemed to keep back his intellect, as some have had the power to retard their pulsation. The balloon takes less time...expression. A glimmer of understanding would appear in a comer of his eye, and for lack of fuel go out again. A part of his forehead would catch a little intelligence,... | |
 | 1869 - 646 pages
...conception — its highest meridian. He seemed to keep back his intellect, as some have had the power to retard their pulsation. The balloon takes less time in filling, than it took to cover the expression of his broad moony face, over all its quarters, with expression. A glimmer of understanding... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 582 pages
...seemed to keep back his intellect, as some have had the power to retard their pulsation. The Ijallooii takes less time in filling than it took to cover the...a long time in communicating it to the remainder. • • . -t- 'o-,1 \ Fi .1.1 - \-\ >^>'' •• <'. . i < '• I am ill at dates, but I think it is... | |
 | Thomas Craddock - 1867 - 232 pages
...slowly over his countenance, climbing up little by little with a painful process," when a "glimmering of understanding would appear in a corner of his eye, and for lack of fuel go out again, when a part of his forehead would catch a little intelligence, and be a long time in communicating... | |
 | Edmund Hodgson Yates - 1872 - 758 pages
...conception — its highest meridian. He seemed to keep back his intellect, as some have had the power to retard their pulsation. The balloon takes less time in filling than it took to cover the expanse of his broad moony face over all its quarters of expression. A glimmer of understanding would... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1868 - 510 pages
...at last, to the fulness of a twilight conception .... He seemed to keep back his intellect . . : . A glimmer of understanding would appear in a corner of his eye, and then go out, for lack of expression. A part of his forehead would catch a little intelligence, and... | |
 | 1869 - 634 pages
...conception — its highest meridian. . lie seemed to keep back his intellect, as some hare had the power to retard their pulsation. The balloon takes less time in filling, than it took to cover the expression of his broad moony face, over aU its quarters, with expression. A glimmer of understanding... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1876 - 740 pages
...conception — its highest meridian. He seemed to keep back his intellect, as some have had the power to retard their pulsation. The balloon takes less time...a long time in communicating it to the remainder. 1 am ill at dates, but I think it is now better than five-and-twenty years ago, that walking in the... | |
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