Backward Glances; Or, Some Personal Recollections: Or, Some Personal ...
Backward Glances; Or, Some Personal Recollections: Or, Some Personal ...
James Hedderwick
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His bearing was that of a man born for triumph, but whose fate it had been to struggle with adversity and sorrow. Kossuth was slightly above the middle height, and of easy but imposing deportment. His rhetoric was simple, yet elevated. It was obvious that he had drunk of the " well of English undefiled" to an extent beyond that of most people to the manner born. He was profoundly conversant with Shakespeare, whom he had studied when in prison. With the writings of Burns he also showed some acqu...aint- AN ACCIDENTAL TREAT. 199 ance, for he mentioned that his song of "A man's a man for a' that " had its counterpart in an old Hungarian lyric. His sentences were at times tremulous with emotional beauty ; and I could not feel surprised that the voice to which I listened, rich and moving even in colloquial discourse, had held vast English audiences spell- bound with a sweetness and a majesty which came upon them as a wonder, and which no other foreigner of our time had ever, I think, equalled.
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