 | 1828 - 722 pages
...a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have...country, he expressed himself with perfect firmness, hut without the least intrusive forwardness ; and when he differed in opinion, he did not hesitate... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1828 - 324 pages
...a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have...country, he expressed himself with perfect firmness, hut without the least intrusive forwardness ; and when he differed in opinion, he did not hesitate... | |
 | 1835 - 842 pages
...glowed, (I say literally glowed,) when he spoke with feeling or interest." "I never saw another such eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished...self-confidence, without the slightest presumption." After making a few more observations with relation to the poet's conversation and manner, the writer... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1834 - 420 pages
...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 - 802 pages
...glowed, (1 sny literally glowed,) when he spoke with feeling or interest." "I never saw another such tye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished...self-confidence, without the slightest presumption." After making a few more observations with relation to the poet's conversation and manner, the writer... | |
 | 1836 - 694 pages
...a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though 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 - 348 pages
...dark cast, which glowed, (I say literally glowed) when he spoke, with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, 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... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 454 pages
...interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men in my time. His conversation expressed perfect self-confidence,...without the least intrusive forwardness ; and when he difiered in opinion, he did not hesitate to express it firmly, yet •at the same time with modesty.... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 628 pages
...a dark cast, which glowed (1 say literally gloiced] when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have...men of my time. His conversation expressed perfect •elf-confidence, without the slightest presumption. Among the men who were the most learned of their... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 438 pages
...intelligence .... his eyes were large, dark, and lustrous." " I never saw," said Sir Walter Scott, " such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time,'' There Is nothing finer than the writing of Burn, except the writing of Shakspeare. We do not in this... | |
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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... 
