 | 1828 - Počet stránok 722
...held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character...self-confidence, without the slightest presumption. Among the men who were the most learned of their time and country, he expressed himself with perfect firmness,... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - Počet stránok 734
...held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character...self-confidence, without the slightest presumption. Among the men who were the most learned of their time and country, he expressed himself with perfect firmness,... | |
 | 1828 - Počet stránok 268
...held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character...self-confidence, without the slightest presumption. Among the men who were the most learned of their time and country, he expressed himself with perfect firmness,... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1828 - Počet stránok 324
...held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character...self-confidence, without the slightest presumption. Among the men who were the most learned of their time and country, he expressed himself with perfect firmness,... | |
 | 1830 - Počet stránok 472
...plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments; the eye alone, 1 think, indicated the poetical character and temperament....self-confidence, without the slightest presumption. Among the men who were the most learned of their time and country, he expressed himself with perfect firmness,... | |
 | 1835 - Počet stránok 842
...plainness and simplicity. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments : the eye, alone, I think, indicated the poetical character...when he spoke with feeling or interest." "I never saw another such eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. His conversation... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1834 - Počet stránok 420
...dark night, because they were first seen of any part of the Poet. — " I never saw," said Scott, " such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time." In his ordinary moods, Burns looked a man of a hundred ; but when animated in company, he was a man... | |
 | 1836 - Počet stránok 694
...language of his features : " There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character...I have seen the most distinguished men of my time *." Independently of temperament and expression, however, there is a sufficiency of direct evidence... | |
 | Silas Jones - 1836 - Počet stránok 348
...language of his features : ' There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character...though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time.1 Independently of temperament and expression, however, there is a sufficiency of direct evidence... | |
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There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or... 
