 | Robert Burns - 1889 - 334 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.' Nasmyth's picture of the poet represents him as he appeared in what Lockhart has called ' the first... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1890 - 488 pages
...of a dark cast, and glowed (I say literally (/lowed) 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."... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1891 - 412 pages
...and of a 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...firmness, but without the least intrusive forwardness. ... I have only to add that his dress corresponded with his manner. He was like a farmer dressed in... | |
 | 1892 - 130 pages
...a dark cast, wnich 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, but \vith >ut the least intrusive forwardness ; and when he differed in opinion he did not hesitate to... | |
 | James Craig Higgins - 1893 - 252 pages
...and of a 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...firmness, but without the least intrusive forwardness. ... I have only to add that his dress corresponded with his manner. He was like a farmer dressed in... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1893 - 354 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...were the most learned of their time and country, he exp1-essed himself with perfect firmness, but without the least intrusive forwardness ; and when he... | |
 | William Henry Langhorne - 1893 - 302 pages
...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 of my time."' It is singular that Dr. Kobertson, the historian, who was Principal of the University when my maternal... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 620 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." While men of the upper ranks, old and young, were thus receiving their impressions, and forming their... | |
 | James Logie Robertson - 1894 - 388 pages
...was large, and of a dark cast, and 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." It was in Edinburgh, too, that he met Mrs M'Lehose, the Clarinda of his correspondence, and the heroine... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1894 - 158 pages
...dark cast, and glowed — I say literally glowed — when he spoko 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.... | |
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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... 
