 Dutch statuary as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity,...  The popular educator - Page 345by Popular educator - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1810 - 874 pages
...of some cunning dutch statuary, as a model of majesty Did lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, far excelling in magnitude that of the great Pericles (who was thence waggishly called Scbe•nocephalut,... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1819 - 310 pages
...of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur.\He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in...the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his back bone, just between the shoulders. His body was of an oblong form, particularly capacious at bottom;... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1819 - 302 pages
...of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in...the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his back bone, just between the shoulders. His body was of an oblong form, particularly capacious at bottom;... | |
 | 1821 - 732 pages
...of some cunning Dutch statuary as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in...the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his back bone, just between the shoulders. His body was of an oblong form, particularly capacious at bottom... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1821 - 414 pages
...Schenocephalus, or onion head) — indeed, of such stupendous dimensions was it, that dame Nature herself, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled...the top of his back-bone, just between the shoulders ; where it remained, as snugly bedded as a ship pf war in the mud of the Potowmac. His body was of... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1821 - 414 pages
...of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, far excelling in magnitude that of the great Pericles (who was thence waggishly called Schenoctphalus,... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1824 - 318 pages
...of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in...the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his back bone, just between the shoulders. His body was of an oblongform, particularly capaciousat bottom... | |
 | George Lockhart - Jacobites - 1824 - 870 pages
...of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, far excelling in magnitude that of the great Pericles (who was thence waggishly called Scheuocephalus,... | |
 | Washington Irving - American wit and humor - 1825 - 356 pages
...of some cunning Dutch statuary as a model of majesty and lordly grandenr. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, far excelling in magnitnde that of the great Pericles (who was thence waggishly called Schenocephaliu,... | |
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