 Nay, to that perfection is he arrived, that he stoops as he walks. The figure of the man is odd enough; he is a lively little creature, with long arms and legs : a spider is no ill emblem of him : he has been taken at a distance for a small windmill.  The Works of Alexander Pope Esq - Page 289by Alexander Pope - 1751Full view - About this book
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 728 pages
...in black, that he may appear yet less ; nay, to that perfection is he arrived that he stoops as he walks. The figure of the man is odd enough : He is...spider is no ill emblem of him ; he has been taken at a distance for a small windmill." He was about four feet six inches high, very humpbacked and deformed.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1886 - 594 pages
...in black, that he may appear yet less. Nay, to that perfection is he arrived, that he stoops as he walks. The figure of the man is odd enough ; he is...spider is no ill emblem of him ; he has been taken at a distance for a small windmill. But indeed what principally moved us in his favour was his talent in... | |
 | Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - 632 pages
...in black, that he may appear yet less. Nay, to that perfection is he arrived, that he stoops as he walks. The figure of the man is odd enough — he is a lively litlle creature, with long arms and legs. A spider is no ill emblem of him. He has been taken at a... | |
 | Mabel E. Wotton - 1887 - 376 pages
...in black, that he may appear yet less. Nay, to that perfection is he arrived, that he stoops as he walks. The figure of the man is odd enough ; he is...spider is no ill emblem of him. He has been taken at a distance for a small windmill."— 1713. "The person of Pope is well known not to have been formed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 pages
...generally in black, that he may appear yet less. Nay, to that perfection is he arrived that he stoops as he walks. The figure of the man is odd enough ; he is...spider is no ill emblem of him: he has been taken at a distance for a small windmill." 1. 15. his application, that is, to his studies. 1. 20. his life was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 pages
...generally in black, that he may appear yet less. Nay, to that perfection is he arrived that he stoops as he walks. The figure of the man is odd enough ; he is...spider is no ill emblem of him : he has been taken at a distance for a small windmill." 1. 15. his application, that is, to his studies. 1. 20. his life was... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1901 - 196 pages
...Richardson looked " like a plump white mouse in a wig." Pope is described in the Guardian, in 1713, as "a lively little creature, with long arms and legs...spider is no ill emblem of him ; he has been taken at a distances for a. small windmill." Charles Kingsley appears as " rather tall, very angular, surprisingly... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 504 pages
...he was excited, he justly described himself as " a lively little creature, with long legs and arms ; a spider is no ill emblem of him ; he has been taken at a distance for a small windmill." His physical weakness, no doubt, was in great part responsible for... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 512 pages
...he was excited, he justly described himself as "a lively little creature, with long legs and arms ; a spider is no ill emblem of him ; he has been taken at a distance for a small windmill." His physical weakness, no doubt, was in great part responsible for... | |
 | 1903
...he was excited, he justly described himself as "a lively little creature, with long legs and arms ; a spider is no ill emblem of him ; he has been taken at a distance for a small windmill." His physical weakness, no doubt, was in great part responsible for... | |
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