 | Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 pages
...Coleridge's irresolution shewed itself in his gait : in walking, he rather shuffled than decisively stepped ; and a lady once remarked, he never could fix which...shifted, in cork-screw fashion, and kept trying both. His indolence may, in great part, be accounted for by his lymphatic temperament — a temperament which,... | |
 | 742 pages
...attitude; in walking, he rather shuffled than decisively stepped ; and I a lady once remarked, lie never could fix which side of the garden-walk would suit him best, but continually shifted, in corkscrew-fashion, and kept trying both. A heavy-laden, highaspiring, and surely much-suffering man.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1851 - 360 pages
...under possibility of strength. He hung loosely on his limbs, with knees bent, and stooping attitude ; in walking, he rather shuffled than decisively stept...shifted, in corkscrew fashion, and kept trying both. A heavy-laden, high-aspiring and surely much-suffering man. His voice, naturally soft and good, had... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1852 - 396 pages
...under possibility of strength. He hung loosely on his limbs, with knees bent, and stooping attitude ; in walking, he rather shuffled than decisively stept...shifted, in corkscrew fashion, and kept trying both. A heavy-laden, high-aspiring and surely much-suffering man. His voice, naturally soft and good, had... | |
 | 1852 - 532 pages
...limbs, with knees bent, and stooping attitude ; in walking, he rather shuffled than decisively slept; and a lady once remarked, he never could fix which...shifted, in corkscrew fashion, and kept trying both. A heavy-laden, high-aspiring and surely much-suffering man. His voice, naturally soft and good, had... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1852 - 362 pages
...limbs, with knees bent, and stooping attitude ; in walking, he rather shuffled than decisively slept ; and a lady once remarked, he never could fix which...shifted, in corkscrew fashion, and kept trying both. A heavy-laden, high-aspiring and surely much-suffering man. His voice, naturally soft and good, had... | |
 | 1852 - 598 pages
...under possibility of strength. He hung loosely on his limbs, with knees bent and stooping attitude ; in walking, he rather shuffled than decisively stept...once remarked, he never could fix which side of the garden walk would suit him best, but continually shifted, in corkscrew fashion, and Kept trying both.... | |
 | 1852 - 528 pages
...attitude in walking, he rather shuffled than decisively slept; and a lady once remarked he never knew which side of the garden-walk would suit him best,...shifted in cork-screw fashion and kept trying both. His voice, naturally soft and good, had contracted itself into a plaintive snuffle and sing-song :... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 436 pages
...under possibility of strength. He hung loosely on his limbs, with knees bent, and stooping attitude ; in walking, he rather shuffled than decisively stept;...shifted, in corkscrew fashion, and kept trying both. A heavy-laden, high-aspiring and surely much-suffering man. His voice, naturally soft and good, had... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 432 pages
...limbs, with knees bent, and stooping attitude ; in walking, he rather shuffled than decisively slept ; and a lady once remarked, he never could fix which side of the garden-walk woiild suit him best, but continually shifted, in corkscrew fashion, and kept trying both. A heavy-laden,... | |
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The whole figure and air, good and amiable otherwise, might be called flabby and irresolute ; | expressive of weakness under possibility of strength. He hung loosely on his limbs, with knees bent, and stooping attitude ; in walking, he rather shuffled... 
