 | Evelyn Mary Spearing Simpson - 1924 - 1102 頁
...unexpressible addition of Comeliness. ' The melancholy and pleasant humor were in him so contempered, that each gave advantage to the other, and made his...great wit, both being made useful by a commanding^ judgement. ' His aspect was chearful, and such as gave a silent testimony of a clear knowing soul,... | |
 | Amy Louise Reed - 1924 - 300 頁
...presented an admirable balance. Says Walton: The melancholy and pleasant humour were in him so contempered, that each gave advantage to the other, and made his company one of the delights of mankind. It is true that he had " occasional melancholy," due to special, adequate causes. His wife's death... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 頁
...unexpressible addition of comeliness. 198 The melancholy and pleasant humour were in him so contempered, that each gave advantage to the other, and made his...company one of the delights of Mankind. His fancy was inimitably high, equalled only by his great wit ; both being made useful by a commanding judgement.... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 頁
...advantage to the other, and made his company one of the delights of Mankind, His fancy was inimitably high, equalled only by his great wit ; both being made useful by a commanding judgement. His aspect was chearful, and such as gave a silent testimony of a clear knowing soul, and... | |
 | Sidney Dark - 1928 - 264 頁
...unexpressible addition of comeliness. 'The melancholy and pleasant humour were in him so contempered that each gave advantage to the other, and made his...both being made useful by a commanding judgment.' Donne was a handsome man of middle height, notable for his elegance of manner. He was whimsical, passionate... | |
 | John Donne - 1959 - 252 頁
...unexpressible addition of comeliness. The melancholy and pleasant humour were in him so contempered, that each gave advantage to the other, and made his...great wit; both being made useful by a commanding j udgment. His aspect was cheerful, and such as gave a silent testimony of a clear knowing soul, and... | |
 | John Donne - 2003 - 258 頁
...his company was one of the delights of mankind, and that "his aspect was chearful, and such as gave silent testimony of a clear knowing soul, and of a Conscience at peace with it self." This is confirmed by the funeral elegy which Sidney Godolphin, a minor poet, contributed... | |
 | Vieda Skultans, John Lee Cox - 2000 - 296 頁
...Penseroso, 1645). • as personality ('The Melancholy and pleasant humour were in him so con-tempered, that each gave advantage to the other, and made his company one of the delights of Mankind'. Isaac Walton, Life of John Donne, 1640). • as landscape (' The Parke [at BruxellesJ so naturally... | |
 | David Edwards - 2001 - 406 頁
...inexpressible addition of Comeliness. The melancholy and pleasant humours were in him so contempered, that each gave advantage to the other, and made his...was unimitably high, equalled only by his great wit . . . His aspect was chearful and such as gave a silent testimony of a clear knowing soul and of a... | |
 | Jessica Martin - 2001 - 384 頁
...spiritual qualities, often reading the latter from the former: 'His aspect was chearful,' writes Walton, 'and such, as gave a silent testimony of a clear knowing soul, and of a Conscience at peace with itself (p. 83). The juxtaposition of the Character with the statue suggests that to some extent the Character... | |
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His aspect was cheerful, and such as gave a silent testimony of a clear knowing soul, and of a conscience at peace with itself. His melting eye showed that he had a soft heart, full of noble compassion ; of too brave a soul to offer injuries, and too... 
