 | 1828 - 722 pàgines
...poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the old Scotch school, ie none of your modern agriculturists who keep labourers...temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - 734 pàgines
...and still recollect, with very great pleasure. " His person was strong and robust; his-manic 4 ners rustic, not clownish ; a sort of dignified plainness...temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1828 - 324 pàgines
...ie none of your modern agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce giideman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression...temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a... | |
 | 1828 - 268 pàgines
...ie, none of your modern agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce gitdcman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression...temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed, (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1830 - 340 pàgines
...poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the old Scotch school, ie none of your modern agriculturists, who keep labourers...temperament. It was large and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a... | |
 | 1830 - 472 pàgines
...poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious country farmer, of the old Scotch school, ie none of your modern agriculturists, who keep labourers...and shrewdness in all his lineaments; the eye alone, 1 think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1831 - 338 pàgines
...country farm««=-of ihe old Scotch school, ie none of your modern agriculturalists, who keep laborers for their drudgery, but the douce gudeman who held...temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a... | |
 | 1835 - 842 pàgines
...strong and robust: his manners rustic, not clownish, a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed, (I say literally glowed,) when he spoke with feeling or interest." "I never saw another such eye in... | |
 | 1836 - 694 pàgines
...had the fortune to see Burns, gives the following account of the natural language of his features : " There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...temperament. It was large and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a... | |
 | Silas Jones - 1836 - 348 pàgines
...had the fortune to see Burns, gives the following account of the natural language of his features : ' There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...temperament. It was large and of a dark cast, which glowed, (I say literally glowed) when he spoke, with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a... | |
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Scotch school, /'. e. none of your modern agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce gudeman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated... 
