 | 1828 - 722 pages
...I then received and still recollect with very great pleasure. ' His person was strong and robust ; his manners rustic, not clownish ; a sort of dignified...are diminished, as if seen in perspective. I think I'.is countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. I should have taken the poet,... | |
 | 1828 - 268 pages
...then received, and still recollect, with very great pleasure. ' His person was strong and robust ; his manners rustic, not clownish ; a sort of dignified...features are represented in Mr. Nasmyth's picture, hut to me it conveys the idea, that they are diminished as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1828 - 882 pages
...civility, I then received, and still recollect, with very great pleasure. His person was strong and robust; his manners rustic, not clownish ; a sort of dignified...extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr. Nanmyth's picture ; but to me it conveys the idea that they are diminished, as if fteea. iri perspective.... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1831 - 338 pages
...then received, and still recollect, with very great pleasure. " His person was strong and robust ; his manners rustic, not clownish ; a sort of dignified...part of its effect, perhaps, from one's knowledge oi'his extraordinary talents. His features aru represented in Mr. Nasmith's picture, but to me it conveys... | |
 | 1835 - 842 pages
...still recollect, with very great pleasure." "Hid person," continues Sir Walter, "was strong and robust: his manners rustic, not clownish, a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments : the eye, alone, I think,... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - Scotland - 1837 - 628 pages
...pleasure. " His person was strong and robust ; his manners rustic, not clpwnisb ; a sort of dignHied plainness and simplicity, which received part of its...from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. HSs features are represented in Mr. Nasmyth's picture, but to me it conveys the idea, that they are... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women - 1837 - 394 pages
...: — " His form was strong and robust, his manner rustic, not clownish ; with a sort of dignified simplicity, which received part of its effect, perhaps,...knowledge of his extraordinary talents ; * * * his eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament ; it was large, and of a dark... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in literature - 1837 - 382 pages
...form was strong and robust, his manner rustic, not clownish ; with a sort of dignified simpb'city, which received part of its effect, perhaps, from one's...knowledge of his extraordinary talents ; * * * his eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament ; it was large, and of a dark... | |
 | John Wilson - 1840 - 372 pages
............. 100 KILMAHNOCK — MARKET CROSS, . . . . . . .102 THE LAND OF BURNS. PORTRAIT OF BURNS. " BURNS was nearly five feet ten inches in height, and of...simplicity, which received part of its effect, perhaps, from one^ knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr Nasmytli's picture,... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1841 - 384 pages
...civility, I then received and still recollect with very great pleasure. "His person was strong and robust ; his manners rustic, not clownish ; a sort of dignified...which received part of its effect perhaps from one's knowledgeof his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr. Nasmyth's picture : but... | |
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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. Nasmyth's... 
