 On his leaving the room, to confirm or remove my doubts as to the cause of his lameness, I uncovered the pilgrim's feet, and was answered — the great mystery was solved. Both his feet were clubbed, and his legs withered to the knee — the form and...  The Southern literary messenger - Page 4691858Full view - About this book
 | Edward John Trelawny - Greece - 1858 - 332 pages
...the great mystery was solved. Both his feet were clubbed, and his legs withered to the knee — the form and features of an Apollo, with the feet and...had expressed all he could express of what a man of highly -wrought mind might feel when brooding over a deformity of body : but when he said " I have... | |
 | Edward John Trelawny - Greece - 1858 - 328 pages
...the great mystery was solved. Both his feet were clubbed, and his legs withered to the knee — the form and features of an Apollo, with the feet and...had expressed all he could express of what a man of highly -wrought mind might feel when brooding over a deformity of body : but when he said " I have... | |
 | Edward John Trelawny - Greece - 1858 - 314 pages
...answered—the great mystery was solved. Both his feet were clubbed, and his legs withered to the knee—the form and features of an Apollo, with the feet and...Transformed,' I knew that he had expressed all he could ex-' press of what a man of highly-wrought mind might feel when brooding over a deformity of body:... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1858 - 432 pages
...the great mystery was solved. Both his feet were clubbed, and his legs withered to the knee — the form and features of an Apollo, with the feet and legs of a silvan satyr.' This is exaggerated. Byron was neither so classically moulded nor so deformed — that... | |
 | Edward John Trelawny - Greece - 1859 - 336 pages
...answered—the great mystery was solved. Both his feet were clubbed, and his legs withered to the knee; —the form and features of an Apollo, with the feet and...brooding over a deformity of body: but when he said, " I have done the best which spirit may to make Its way with all deformity, dull, deadly, Discouraging... | |
 | 1859 - 914 pages
...the great mystery was solved. Both his feet were clubbed, and the legs withered to the knee — the form and features of an Apollo, with the feet and legs of a Sylvan Satyr." Without further discussing the propriety of the proceeding, or the tone in which it is narrated, we... | |
 | 1869 - 852 pages
...was answered, — both his teet were clubbed, and the legs withered to the knee : the form and face of an Apollo, with the feet and legs of a sylvan Satyr." I am as certain as if he had told me so, that in this sentence lay the germ of the character of Donatello,... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - Authors, American - 1875 - 552 pages
...was answered — both his feet were clubbed, and the legs withered to the knee ; the form and face of an Apollo, with the feet and legs of a sylvan Satyr.' This is a tolerably fair description of the being whose destiny was linked with Miriam, that remarkable... | |
 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1875 - 558 pages
...was answered — both his feet were clubbed, and the legs withered to the knee : the form and face of an Apollo, with the feet and legs of a sylvan satyr." Well may the sad name of Byron bring to mind the great line of Campbell — which Sir Walter called... | |
 | Edward John Trelawny - Illustrated books - 1878 - 278 pages
...and compelled him to walk on the fore part of his feet ; except this defect, his feet were perfect. This was a curse, chaining a proud and soaring spirit...brooding over a deformity of body; but when he said, " I have done the best which spirit may to make Its way with all deformity's dull deadly Discouraging... | |
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