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" ... in the most classical taste. He is about five feet six inches high, slender and well made, but stoops considerably ; he looks at least ten years older than he is, owing to the great fatigues he underwent in his immortal campaign of Italy. His face... "
Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, ... written by himself, ed. by W.T.W. Tone - Page 450
by Theobald Wolfe Tone - 1826
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 36

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 - 1827 - 624 pages
...underwent in his immortal campaign of Italy. His face is that of a profound thinker, but bears no marks of that great enthusiasm and unceasing activity by...him, and what little there was, was between him and Lewines, to whom, as our am* bassador, I gave the pas.' — vol. ii. p. 454. ' December 23. — His...
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Memoirs of Theobald Wolfe Tone, Volume 2

Theobald Wolfe Tone, William Theobald Wolfe Tone - Ireland - 1827 - 470 pages
...underwent in his immortal campaign of Italy. His face is that of a profound thinker, but bears no marks of that great enthusiasm and unceasing activity by...him ; and what little there was, was between him and Lewines, to whom, as our Ambassador, I gave the pas. We told him that Tennant was about to depart for...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 36

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 - 1827 - 634 pages
...underwent in his immortal campaign of Italy, His face is that of a profound thinker, hut bears no marks of that great enthusiasm and unceasing activity by...distinguished. It is rather, to my mind, the countenance of d mathematician than of a general. He has a fine eye, and a great •firmness about his mouth ; he...
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The Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, Volume 19

Theobald Wolfe Tone - 1828 - 374 pages
...underwent in his immortal campaign of Italy. His face is that of a profound thinker, but bears no marks of that great enthusiasm and unceasing activity by...than of a general. He has a fine eye, and a great firmnesi about the moufh ; he speaks low and hollow. So much for his manner and figure. We had not...
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Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volume 19

Autobiographies - 1831 - 366 pages
...underwent in his immortal campaign of Italy. His face is that of a profound thinker, but bears no marks of that great enthusiasm and unceasing activity by...general. He has a fine eye, and a great firmness about the mouth ; he speaks low and hollow. So much for his manner and figure. We had not much discourse...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 36

1827 - 630 pages
...underwent in his immortal campaign of Italy. His face is that of a profound thinker, but bears no marks of that great enthusiasm and unceasing activity by...him, and what little there was, was between him and Lewines, to whom, as our ambassador, 1 gave the pas.' — vol. ii. p. 454. ' December 23. — His manner...
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Curran and His Contemporaries

Charles Phillips - Ireland - 1850 - 534 pages
...underwent in his immortal campaign of Italy. His face is that of a profound thinker, but bears no marks of that great enthusiasm and unceasing activity by...mathematician than of a general. He has a fine eye, and great firmness about the mouth : he speaks low and hollow." It is a curious thing, and characteristic...
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Curran and His Contemporaries

Charles Phillips - Ireland - 1851 - 464 pages
...underwent in his immortal campaign of Italy. His face is that of a profound thinker, but bears no marks of that great enthusiasm and unceasing activity by...mathematician than of a general. He has a fine eye, and great firmness about the mouth : he speaks low and hollow." It is a curious thing, and characteristic...
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Life of Robert Emmett, the Celebrated Irish Patriot and Martyr: With His ...

John W. Burke - Ireland - 1853 - 324 pages
...underwent in his immortal campaign of Italy. His face is that of a profound thinker, but bears no marks of that g,reat enthusiasm and unceasing activity by...countenance of a mathematician than of a general. • He lias a fine eye. and great firmness about the mouth : he speaks low and hollow." It is a curious thing,...
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The cabinet of Irish literature, with biogr. sketches and literary notices ...

Charles Anderton Read - 1879 - 390 pages
...underwent in his immortal campaign of Italy. His face is that of a profound thinker, but bears no mark of that great enthusiasm and unceasing activity by...him, and what little there was, was between him and Lewines, to whom, as our ambassador, I gave the pas. We told him that Teunant was about to depart for...
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