 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.  Essay on Burns - Page 54by Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 84 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Craig Higgins - 1893 - 252 pages
...perhaps from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr. Nasmyth's picture ; but to me it conveys the idea that they...his countenance was more massive than it looks in an3* of the portraits. I would have taken the Poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious... | |
 | Wilmot Harrison - 1893 - 144 pages
...strong and robust, his manner rustic, not clownish, a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity. ... I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of his portraits. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1894 - 158 pages
...perhaps from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr Nasmyth's picture, but to me it conveys the idea that they are...more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. I would have taken the poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 620 pages
...was strong and robust; his manner rustic, not clownish; a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity. His countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. I would have taken the poet, had I not known who he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the old... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 180 pages
...perhaps from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr. Nasmyth's picture: but to me it conveys the idea that they are...than it looks in any of the portraits. I should have 30 taken the poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the old Scotch... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1896 - 462 pages
...perhaps from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr Nasmyth's picture ; but to me it conveys the idea that they...more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. I would have taken the poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the... | |
 | James Thomson - 1896 - 692 pages
...the second half of the first section he lays before us the * But mark, among others, Scott on Burns : "I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. . . . There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1896 - 502 pages
...the second half of the first section he lays before us the * But mark, among others, Scott on Burns: "I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. . . . There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments; the eye alone, I... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 122 pages
...perhaps from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr. Nasmyth's picture : but to me it conveys the idea that they...diminished, as if seen in perspective. I think his 25 countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. I should have taken the poet,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1897 - 216 pages
...perhaps from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr. Nasmyth's picture : but to me it conveys the idea that they...diminished, as if seen in perspective. I think his 25 countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. I should have taken the poet,... | |
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