 Thin-legged, thin-chested, slight unspeakably, Neat-footed and weak-fingered: in his face Lean, large-boned, curved of beak, and touched with race, Bold-lipped, rich-tinted, mutable as the sea, The brown eyes radiant with vivacity There shines a brilliant...  The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson - Page 189by Sir Graham Balfour - 1901Full view - About this book
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - American periodicals - 1920 - 1134 pages
...deeply bent on acting up to the best he knew. Henley tried to sum him up in a well-known sonnet: — "Thin-legged, thin-chested, slight unspeakably, Neat-footed...intense and rare, with trace on trace' Of passion and impudence and energy. Valiant in velvet, light in ragged luck, Most vain, most generous, sternly... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - American periodicals - 1920 - 988 pages
...deeply bent on acting up to the best he knew. Henley tried to sum him up in a well-known sonnet: — "Thin-legged, thin-chested, slight unspeakably, Neat-footed...rich-tinted, mutable as the sea, The brown eyes radiant with vivacityThere shines a brilliant and romantic grace, A spirit intense and rare, with trace on trace'... | |
 | Richard Halkett - American literature - 1889 - 766 pages
...Henley's 'Book of Verses' on the supposition that it refers to the poet's friend, Mr. Stevenson : — Thin-legged, thin-chested, slight unspeakably, Neat-footed...weak-fingered ; in his face — Lean, large-boned, curved of beuB, anrt touched with race Bold-lipped, rich-tinted, mutable as the sea, The brown eyes radiant with... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - English literature - 1891 - 204 pages
...eyeballs glitter ; And his smile, occult and tragic, Makes you shudder when you see it XXV APPARITION 'T'HIN-legged, thin-chested, slight unspeakably, Neat-footed...spirit intense and rare, with trace on trace Of passion and impudence and energy. Valiant in velvet, light in ragged luck, Most vain, most generous, sternly... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - English poetry - 1898 - 286 pages
...And his smile, occult and tragic, Yet so slavish, makes you shudder ! ,. J f i > ' f XXV APPARITION THIN-LEGGED, thin-chested, slight unspeakably, Neat-footed...spirit intense and rare, with trace on trace Of passion and impudence and energy. Valiant in velvet, light in ragged luck, Most vain, most generous, sternly... | |
 | Richard Burton - English literature - 1898 - 406 pages
...many-sidedness of his nature — best suggested in his friend Henley's sonnet characterization : APPARITION. Thin-legged, thin-chested, slight unspeakably, Neat-footed...spirit intense and rare, with trace on trace Of passion and impudence and energy. Valiant in velvet, light in ragged luck, Most vain, most generous, sternly... | |
 | Margaret Moyes Black - Authors, Scottish - 1898 - 172 pages
...these days is better than any picture: ' Thin-legged, thin-chested, slight unspeakably, Neat-footed, weak-fingered, in his face, — Lean, large-boned,...curved of beak, and touched with race, Bold-lipped, rich tinted, mutable as the sea, The brown eyes radiant with vivacity , — There shines a brilliant... | |
 | Leslie Cope Cornford - 1899 - 216 pages
...OF LANDSCAPE . . . l66 IX. HIS STYLE. ..... 184 X. EPILOGUE ...... 195 INDEX ...... ig8 APPARITION. Thin-legged, thin-chested, slight unspeakably, Neat-footed...spirit intense and rare, with trace on trace Of passion and impudence and energy. Valiant in velvet, light in ragged luck, Most vain, most generous, sternly... | |
 | Leslie Cope Cornford - 1899 - 232 pages
...NOVELIST 149 VIII. THE LIMNER OF LANDSCAPE 166 IX. H1s STYLE 184 X. EPILOGUE 195 INDEX 199 APPARITION. Thin-legged, thin-chested, slight unspeakably, Neat-footed...spirit intense and rare, with trace on trace Of passion and impudence and energy. Valiant in velvet, light in ragged luck, Most vain, most generous, sternly... | |
 | William Aspenwall Bradley, George Sidney Hellman - 1900 - 434 pages
...describes : APPARITION Thin-legged, thin-chested, slight unspeakably. Neat-footed and neat-nngered: in his face — Lean, large-boned, curved of beak,...spirit intense and rare, with trace on trace Of passion and impudence and energy. Valiant in velvet, light in ragged luck, Most vain, most generous, sternly... | |
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