 | John Manningham - 1868 - 222 páginas
...silence of Lord Montjoy at the dinner table, the description of the popular preacher Clapham — " a black fellow with a sour look but a good spirit, bold...cannot be derived from volumes of mere dates and facts. singular want of originality. Good things which were current in the classical period are here re-invented,... | |
 | John Manningham - 1868 - 224 páginas
...silence of Lord Montjoy at the dinner table, the description of the popular preacher Clapham — " a black fellow with a sour look but a good spirit, bold...sometimes bluntly witty," the fussy particularity of Flectwood the recorder, the vanity of old Stowe, — these, and memoranda such as these, impart a life... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - 1907 - 454 páginas
...gloating eye, and a tossing learing gesture. In the afternoon at Poster Lane, one Clappam, a ' blacke ' fellow with a sour look, but a good spirit, bold and sometimes bluntly witty, and he preached about Rahab " — a queer text and queer sermon. Sir Roger Wilbraham of the old Cheshire... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1868 - 224 páginas
...silence of Lord Montjoy at the dinner table, the description of the popular preacher Clapham — " a black fellow with a sour look but a good spirit, bold...sometimes bluntly witty," the fussy particularity of Flcetwood the recorder, the vanity of old Stowe, — these, and memoranda such as these, impart a life... | |
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... entirely in the observation and memory of contemporaries, that it is a biographical gain to have them recorded in any shape. Apparent trifles, such as the waddling gait of Sir John Davies, the stately silence of Lord Montjoy at the dinner table, the... 