Word Portraits of Famous WritersMabel E. Wotton R. Bentley & son, 1887 - 337 páginas |
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admiration ance Ann Radcliffe Aubrey's Lives beauty Ben Jonson bright brilliant brow brown bust Carlyle character Charles Kingsley cheeks chin Coleridge colour complexion conversation countenance curls dark David Gray delicate dress Eminent engraved expression eyebrows face Father Prout figure forehead Francis Mahony gave genius gentle gentleman George Eliot graceful gray eyes hair hands handsome head humour impression intellectual Isaac D'Israeli Jane Austen Joanna Baillie Johnson lady laugh Leigh Letters light lips look Lord manly manner MATTHEW GREGORY LEWIS Memoir Memories middle height middle stature mind mouth nature ness never nose pale peculiar personal appearance picture pleasant poet portrait Recollections remarkably RICHARD BENTLEY RICHARD LOVELACE robust round seemed seen short shoulders smile sparkling speak spoke sweet Sydney Smith talk tall Theodore Hook thin thought tone voice walked wore writing young youth
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Página 125 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay.
Página 150 - Porter told me, that when he was first introduced to her mother, his appearance was very forbidding : he was then lean and lank, so that his immense structure of bones was hideously striking to the eye, and the scars of the scrofula were deeply visible.
Página 268 - This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut...
Página 44 - His person was strong and robust; his manners rustic, not clownish ; a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity, which received part of its effect perhaps from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr.
Página 305 - So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Página 35 - Of a slight, delicate figure, with a shower of dark curls falling on either side of a most expressive face, large tender eyes richly fringed by dark eyelashes, a smile like a sunbeam...
Página 305 - Would he were fatter ! But I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Página 83 - Whereas Daniel De Foe, alias De Fooe, is charged with writing a scandalous and seditious pamphlet, entitled, ' The Shortest Way with the Dissenters...
Página 79 - As for me, I am a very smart youth of my years. I am not indeed grown grey so much as I am grown bald. No matter. There was more hair in the world than ever had the honour to belong to me. Accordingly having found just enough to curl a little at my ears, and to intermix with a little of my own that still hangs behind, I appear, if you see me in an afternoon, to have a very decent headdress, not easily distinguished from my natural growth, which being worn with a small bag, and a black riband about...
Página 151 - He received me very courteously; but, it must be confessed, that his apartment, and furniture, and morning dress, were sufficiently uncouth. His brown suit of clothes looked very rusty; he had on a little old shrivelled unpowdered wig, which was too small for his head; his shirt-neck and knees of his breeches were loose; his black worsted stockings ill drawn up ; and he had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers.