 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...themselves authors. Such was this Lord, of an advantageous figure, and enterprising spirit; as gallant as Amadis and as brave; but a little more expeditious in his journeys; for he is said to have seen more kings and more postilion* than any man in Europe. . . . He was a man, as his... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 528
...authors. Such was this lord : of an advantageous figure. and enterprizing spirit : as gallant as Amadia, and as brave, but a little more expeditious in his journeys ; for he is said to have seen more kings and more postilions than any man in Europe." He was so active a traveller,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 314
...visitors." So these great spirits spoke of one another. Show me six of the dullest middlespirit ; as gallant as Amadis and as brave ; but a little more expeditious in his journeys ; for he is said to have seen more kings and more postilions than any man in Europe He was a man, as his friend... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 306
...visitors." So these great spirits spoke of one another. Show me six of the dullest middlespirit ; as gallant as Amadis and as brave ; but a little more expeditious in his journeys ; for he is said to have seen more kings and more postilions than any man in Europe He was a man, as his friend... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 546
...themselves authors. Such was this lord: of an advantageous figure, and enterprizing spirit : as gallant as Amadis, and as brave, but a little more expeditious in his journeys ; for he is said to have seen more kings and more postilions than any man in Europe." He was so active a traveller,... | |
 | Alexander Sinclair - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 12
...themselves authors ! Such was this Lord : — of an advantageous figure and enterprising spirit ; as gallant as Amadis, and as brave, but a little more expeditious in his journeys, for he is said ' to have seen more kings and more postilions than any man in Europe.' His enmity to the Duke... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - عدد الصفحات: 882
...themselves authors. Such was this lord, of an advantageous figure, and enterprising spirit ; as gallant as Amadis and as brave ; but a little more expeditious in his journeys ; for he is said to have seen more kings and more postilions than any man in Europe. . . . He was a man, as his... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 334
...themselves authors. Such was this Lord, of an advantageous figure, and enterprising spirit; as gallant as Amadis and as brave; but a little more expeditious in his journeys; for he is said to have seen more kings and more postilions than any man in Europe. ... He was a man, as his friend... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...themselves authors. Such was this lord, of an advantageous figure and enterprising spirit ; as gallant as Amadis and as brave ; but a little more expeditious in his journeys : for he is said to have seen more kings and more postilions than any man in Europe. ... He was a man, as his friend... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 414
...themselves authors. Such was this lord, of an advantageous figure and enterprising spirit ; as gallant as Amadis and as brave ; but a little more expeditious in his journeys : for he is said to have seen more kings and more postilions than any man in Europe. . . . He was a man, as his... | |
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He was one of those men of careless wit and negligent grace, who scatter a thousand bon-mots and idle verses, which we painful compilers gather and hoard, till the authors stare to find themselves authors. Such was this lord, of an advantageous figure... 
