 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...  Essays on Burns - Page 50by Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 139 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Burns - 1837
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 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 336 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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 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...sagacious country farmer of the old Scotch school, ie none of your modern agriculturists who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce gudeman... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1845 - 836 pages
...perspective. I think his countenance was 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 fanner of the old Scotch school — t. «. none of your modern agriculturists, who keep labourers for... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 612 pages
...perhaps from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr. Nasmylh's picture, but to me it conveys the idea that they are diminished as if seen in perspective. 1 think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. I would have taken... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1850 - 868 pages
...perhaps from one's knowledge of hi» 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. ] would have taken the poet, had 1 not known what he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the... | |
 | 1869 - 668 pages
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 | Robert Burns - 1851 - 332 pages
...perhaps from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr Kasmyth'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 w.as, for a very sagacious country farmer of the... | |
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