 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...n'erspread," a purple tinge, as we see it in the paie thoughtful complexions of the Spanish portrait painters, called his associates to their several employments,...and dexterity; and, by dividing his time between the It might seem that the genius of his face as from a height surveyed, and projected him (with sufficient... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - Critics - 1887 - 188 pages
...large projecting eyebrows, and his eyes rolled beneath them like a sea with darkening lustre. . . . His mouth was gross, voluptuous, open, eloquent ;...small, feeble, nothing — like what he has done. . . . Coleridge in his person was rather above the common size, inclining to be corpulent. . . . His... | |
 | James Middleton Sutherland - 1887 - 248 pages
...rolling beneath them, like a sea, with darkened lustre. " A certain tender bloom his face o'erspread ;" a purple tinge, as we see it in the pale, thoughtful...portrait-painters Murillo and Velasquez. His mouth was rather open, his chin good-humoured and round, and his nose small.' ' The first thing," writes Dorothy... | |
 | John H. Lloyd (of Highgate.) - Highgate (London, England) - 1888 - 552 pages
...large projecting eyebrows, and his eyes rolled beneath them like a sea with darkening lustre. * * * His mouth was gross, voluptuous, open, eloquent ;...small, feeble, nothing — like what he has done. * * * Coleridge in his person was rather above the common size, inclining to be corpulent. * * * His... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1889 - 364 pages
...see it in the pale thoughtful complexions of the Spanish portrait-painters, Murillo and Valasquez. His mouth was gross, voluptuous, open, eloquent ;...small, feeble, nothing — like what he has done. It might seem that the genius of his face as from a height surveyed and projected him (with sufficient... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1889 - 586 pages
...rolling beneath them, like a sea with darkened lustre. " A certain tender bloom his face o'erspread," a purple tinge as we see it in the pale, thoughtful...complexions of the Spanish portrait-painters, Murillo and Valasquez. His mouth was gross, voluptuous, open, eloquent ; his chin goodhumoured and round ; but... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1890 - 412 pages
...large projecting eyebrows, and his eyes rolling beneath them like a sea with darkening lustre. . . . His mouth was gross, voluptuous, open, eloquent ;...was small, feeble — nothing like what he has done . . . Coleridge in his person was rather above the common size, inclining to the corpulent. His hair... | |
 | James Middleton Sutherland - 1892 - 270 pages
...rolling beneath them, like a sea, with darkened lustre. " A certain tender bloom his face o'erspread "; a purple tinge, as we see it in the pale, thoughtful complexions of the Spanish portrait - painters Murillo and Velasquez. His mouth was rather open, his chin good-humoured and round,... | |
 | William Wilsey Martin - Nose - 1893 - 152 pages
...portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge presents us with a mouth gross, voluptuous, open, eloquent ; a chin goodhumoured and round ; but his Nose, the rudder of the face, the index of the will, was small and feeble." " The bagpipe sings i' the Nose." Hhakspeare, Merchant of Venice, Act IV., s I. Better... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1893 - 886 pages
...rolling beneath them like a sea with darkened lustre, " A certain tender bloom his face o'erspread," a purple tinge as we see it in the pale thoughtful complexions of the Spanish portrait - painters, Murillo and Velasquez. His mouth was gross, voluptuous, open, eloquent ; his chin... | |
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His forehead was broad and high, light as if built of ivory, with large projecting eyebrows, and his eyes rolling beneath them like a sea with darkened lustre. "A certain tender bloom his face o'erspread," a purple tinge as we see it in the pale thoughtful... 
