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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 317
by Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 448 pages
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Life of Robert Burns

Thomas Carlyle - 1879 - 220 pages
...laborers for their drudgery, but the douce gudeman who held hia own plough. There was a strong ex pression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the...dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when lie spoke with feeling 01 interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have seen...
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Acme library of standard biography

1880 - 814 pages
...who held his own plough. There was n strong expression of snnse and shrewdness in all his Kneaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character...when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw Buch another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. His conversation...
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Worthies of the world, a series of historical and critical ..., Volume 352

Henry William Dulcken - 1880 - 858 pages
...known who he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the okl Scotch school, — the douce gudeman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression...indicated the poetical character and temperament. It wa* large and of a dark -! •' T-rrrn *ir*- ;£. »?-- — -— . IE; — j!-if .am WM n. ii- = —...
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Acme Library of Standard Biography: Macaulay, T. Frederick the Great

1880 - 832 pages
...drudgery, but the douce glide man who held his own plough. There was a strong expression of s°nse and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone,...temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed iI say literally gloircd) when he spoke with feeling or interest I never saw kuch another eye in a...
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Acme Library of Standard Biography

1880 - 812 pages
...and shrewdness in all his line aments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character an' temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which...when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw .J t-,ch another eye in a human iM'ad, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. His...
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Wrecked lives; or, Men who have failed, Volume 2

William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 362 pages
...taken him for a very sagacious country farmer of the old Scotch school ; that is, the " douce guidman " who held his own plough. There was a strong expression...and shrewdness in all his lineaments : the eye alone indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a cast which glowed when he...
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Shaw's New History of English Literature

Thomas Budd Shaw - 1880 - 442 pages
...talents. . . , I think bin countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits There wns a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all...lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical temperament. It was large and of a dark cast, and glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with...
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King's College Lectures on Elocution: Or, The Physiology and Culture of ...

Charles John Plumptre - 1881 - 522 pages
...quail." Sir Walter Scott, in the accounts he gives to Lockhart of his interview with Burns, says : " There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, although I have seen the most distinguished men of my time.t In Meister's account of Diderot, contained...
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King's College Lectures on Elocution: Or, The Physiology and Culture of ...

Charles John Plumptre - 1881 - 524 pages
...rays quail." Sir Walter Scott, in the accounts he gives to Lockhart of his interview with Burns, says: "There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glawed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, although...
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Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 251

1881 - 952 pages
...Scott on Burns: "I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in ally of the portraits. . . . There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...and temperament. It was large and of a dark cast, and glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another...
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