 | David Bromwich - Literary Collections - 1999 - 484 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...the face, the index of the will, was small, feeble, nothing—like what he has done. It might seem that the genius of his face as from a height surveyed... | |
 | Adam Sisman - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 540 pages
...large projecting eyebrows, and his eyes rolling beneath them, like a sea with darkened lustre . . . His mouth was gross, voluptuous, open, eloquent; his...the index of the will, was small, feeble, nothing . . . Coleridge, in his person, was rather above the common size, inclining to the corpulent . . .... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Literary Collections - 2007 - 1143 pages
...editorial footnote i); and more recently his comment on Coleridge in 'My First Acquaintance with Poets': 'his nose, the rudder of the face, the index of the...small, feeble, nothing — like what he has done' (Wu ix 97). 5 In each case the subject-matter is deliberately vulgar. And what better way of cutting... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1925 - 216 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...small, feeble, nothing — like what he has done. It might seem that the genius of his face as from a height 30 surveyed and projected him (with sufficient... | |
 | 326 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...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... | |
 | 376 pages
...eyes roll1ng 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...good-humoured and round; but his nose, the rudder of his face, the index of the will, was small, feeble, nothing — like what he has done. It might seem... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - English literature - 1906 - 610 pages
...characteristic of himself. After telling us that " a certain tender bloom his face o'erspread," he says : " His mouth was gross, voluptuous, open, eloquent, his...small, feeble, nothing — like what he has done." He tells us, too, of his first acquaintance with Wordsworth at Nether Stowey, the poet presenting himself... | |
 | William Maddux Tanner - American essays - 1925 - 344 pages
...description of Coleridge. Hazlitt, himself a painter and a wonderfully keen observer, speaks thus : ' His nose, the rudder of the face, the index of the will, was small, feeble, nothing.' Is it true that the nose is the index of the will? I immediately set to work to observe for myself.... | |
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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... 
