 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1865 - 912 pàgines
...reaching Avignon in 1353. He was not a sage, his garrulous reminiscences show an incontinent variety, and an incoherent lapse from one subject to another, matched...literature except the conversation of Mrs. Nickleby ; but he was a man of considerable reading, and his recollections of what he had seen are often very... | |
 | 1871 - 808 pàgines
...dignitary of the Church is not a sage ; his garrulous reminiscences show an incontinent vanity, and an incoherent lapse from one subject to another, matched...literature except the conversation of Mrs. Nickleby. But he is a man of considerable reading, and his recollections of what he saw often form very vivid... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1865 - 706 pàgines
...reaching Avignon in 1353. lie was not a sage, his garrulous reminiscences show an incontinent variety, and an incoherent lapse from one subject to another, matched...literature except the conversation of Mrs. Nickleby : but he was a man of considerable reading, and his recollections of what he had seen are often very... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1871 - 608 pàgines
...dignitary of the Church is nota sage ; his garrulous reminiscences show an incontinent vanity, and an incoherent lapse from one subject to another, matched...literature except the conversation of Mrs. Nickleby. But he is a man of considerable reading, and his recollections of what he * Journal kept by Mr. Gardner... | |
 | 1871 - 612 pàgines
...dignitary of the Church is nota sage ; his garrulous reminiscences show an incontinent vanity, and an incoherent lapse from one subject to another, matched...literature except the conversation of Mrs. Nickleby. But be is a man of considerable reading, and his recollections of what he * Journal kept by Mr. Gardner... | |
 | Sir Henry Yule - 1914 - 308 pàgines
...Prague in 1354 or 1355. It has been already said that Marignolli must have been an old man when he wrote these recollections ; and I think readers will...one sense. When he says " istud ales quod vocatur rhinocerunta" he utters almost as many blunders as words ; but he is nearly always perfectly and vividly... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1871 - 828 pàgines
...dignitary of the Church is not a sage ; his garrulous reminiscences show an incontinent vanity, and an incoherent lapse from one subject to another, matched...literature except the conversation of Mrs. Nickleby. But he is a man of considerable reading, and his recollections of what he saw often form very vivid... | |
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Church is not a sage ; his garrulous reminiscences show an incontinent vanity, and an incoherent lapse from one subject to another, matched by nothing in literature except the conversation of Mrs. Nickleby. But he... 