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" There is a manly frankness, with perfect ease and good breeding about him, which is delightful. Not the least touch of the poet or the pedant... "
The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 343
1852
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart

Walter Scott, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 430 pages
...<kscription. Moreover, he looked always like a schoolboy. Now Moore has none of this insignificance. His countenance is plain, but the [expression so very...singing, that it is far more interesting than the finest features could hare rendered it. " I was aware that Byron had often spoken, both in private society...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 2

John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 790 pages
...description. Moreover, he looked always like a schoolboy. Now Moore has none of this insignificance. His countenance is plain, but the expression so very animated, especially in speaking or singing1, that it is far more interesting than the finest features could have rendered it. " I was...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 3

John Gibson Lockhart - 1838 - 390 pages
...indeed met in public twenty years ago. There is a manly frankness, with perfect ease and good-breeding, about him which is delightful. Not the least touch of the poet or the pedant. A little—very little man. Less, I think, than Lewis, and somewhat like him in person; God knows,...
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Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 5

William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1838 - 830 pages
...portraits : — " November 22 — Moore There is a manly frankness, with perfect ease and good-breeding, about him which is delightful. Not the least touch of the poet or the pedant. A little — very little man. Less, I think, than Lewis, and somewhat like him in person ; God knows,...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 8

John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 430 pages
...indeed met in public twenty years ago. There is a manly frankness, with perfect ease and good-breeding, about him which is delightful. Not the least touch of the poet or the pedant. A little — very little man. Less, I think, than Lewis, and something like him in person ; God knows,...
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Memoirs of the life of sir Walter Scott [by J.G. Lockhart].

John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 434 pages
...public twenty years ago. There is a manly frankness, with perfect ease and good-breeding, about Lira which is delightful. Not the least touch of the poet or the pedant. A little — very little man. Less, I think, than Lewis, and something like him in person ; God knows,...
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Titan: A Monthly Magazine..., Volume 5

1847 - 446 pages
...is quite delightful. Not the least touch of the poet or the pedant. A little — very little Bian, His countenance is plain, but the expression so very...singing, that it is far more interesting than the finest features could have rendered it.' After leaving Abbotsford, Mr Moore went to Edinburgh, where the two...
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Narrative of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.,

John Gibson Lockhart - 1848 - 452 pages
...exquisite warbling I ever heard. . . . There is a manly frankness, with perfect ease and good-breeding, about him, which is delightful. Not the least touch of the poet or the pedant. A little — very little man — less, I think, than Lewis, and something like him in person ; God...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore - 1851 - 918 pages
...deep an impression on all with whom he associated. Scott says, "There is a manly frankness about Moore which is delightful. Not the least touch of the poet...pedant. His countenance is plain, but the expression so animated, especially in speaking or singing, that it is far more interesting than the finest features...
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The Irish Quarterly Review, Volume 2

1852 - 892 pages
...(for the first time, I may say) this season. We had indeed met in public twenty years ago. There is a manly frankness, with perfect ease and good breeding...delightful. Not the least touch of the poet or the pedant. A little — very little man — less, I think, than Lewis, and something like him in person ; God...
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