 In expressing slowness of apprehension, this actor surpassed all others. 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...  Dictionary of National Biography - Page 151edited by - 1888Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1835 - 606 pages
...climbing up by little and little, with a painful process, till it cleared up at last to the fullness of a twilight 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... | |
 | 1822 - 734 pages
...the character some few seasons ago, and made it sufficiently grotesque ; but Dodd was it, as it came little, with a painful process, till it 'cleared up...He seemed to keep back his intellect, as some have had the power to retard their pulsation. The balloon takes less time hi filling, than it took to cover... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 704 pages
...but Dodd was it, as it came out of nature's hands. It might be said to remain in puris naturalibus. In expressing slowness of apprehension this actor...He seemed to keep back his intellect, as some have had the power tor retard their pulsation. The balloon takes less time in filling, than it took to cover... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 432 pages
...but Dodd was it, as it came out of nature's hands. It might be said to remain in puris naturalibus. In expressing slowness of apprehension this actor...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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Essays - 1835 - 440 pages
...but Dodd was //, as it came out of nature's hands. It might be said to remain in puris uaturalibus. In expressing slowness of apprehension, this actor...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... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...but Dodd was it, as it came out of nature's hands. It might be said to remain in puris naluralibtts. In expressing slowness of apprehension this actor...dawn of an idea stealing slowly over his countenance, climhing up by little and little, with a painful process, till it cleared up at last to the fulness... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 362 pages
...but Dodd was it, as it came out of nature's hands. It might be said to remain in puris naturalibus. In expressing slowness of apprehension this actor...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... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...but Dodd was it, as it came out of nature's hands. It might be said to remain in puris naturalibus. In expressing slowness of apprehension this actor...last to the fulness of a twilight conception — its higl|pst meridian. He seemed to keep back his intellect, as some have had the power to retard their... | |
 | 1835 - 610 pages
...and his Aguecheek — how racily ! how tenderly drawn ! ' In expressing slowness of apprehension Dodd surpassed all others. You could see the first dawn...painful process, till it cleared up at last to the fullness of a twilight conception — its highest meridian. He seemed to keep back his intellect, as... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pages
...but Dodd was it, as it came out of nature's hands. It might be said to remain in puris naturalibus. In expressing slowness of apprehension, this actor...and little, with a painful process, till it cleared np at last to the fulness of a twilight conception — its highest meridian. He seemed to keep back... | |
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