 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 424 pages
...of a dark cast, and 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 in my time. His conversation expressed perfect self-confidence, without the slightest presumption.... | |
 | 1882 - 780 pages
...glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeli. ti or interest I never saw auch another eye in human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time." In the clubs and brotherhoods of the middle class, which met in taverns down the closes and wynds of... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 pages
...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...self-confidence, without the slightest presumption." Burns died on the 21st of July, 1796. His funeral was attended by thousands of persons, of every rank... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1883 - 378 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." Of Jeffrey, when a lad in his teens, it is recorded that one day, as he stood on the High street of... | |
 | 1883 - 528 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." 2. The Songs of Burns. On the songs of Burns a volume might be written, but a few sentences must here... | |
 | 1883 - 778 pages
...a dark cas., 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." While men of the upper ranks, old and young, were thus receiving their impressions, and forming their... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1883 - 88 pages
...without the slightest presumption. Among thf men who were the most learned of their time -and conntry, he expressed himself with perfect firmness, but without the least intrusive forwardness ; and when he diffei'ed in opinion, he did not hesitate to express it firmlv, yet at the same time with modesty.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, Truman Jay Backus - 1884 - 504 pages
...cast, and glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw puch 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 slightest presumption."—... | |
 | Mabel E. Wotton - 1887 - 376 pages
...of a dark cast, and 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 in my time. His conversation expressed perfect self-confidence, without the slightest presumption.... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1888 - 366 pages
...temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which 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." THE COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT. MY lov'd, my honor'd, much respected friend ! No mercenary bard his homage... | |
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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... 
