| 1831 - 676 pages
...cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed,) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw sucli another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. His conversation expressed perfect self-confidence, without the slightest presumption.' He adds, '... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1828 - 342 pages
...was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human...I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. His conversation expressed perfect self-confidence, without the slightest presumption. Among the men... | |
| 1828 - 586 pages
...was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human...I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. His conversation expressed perfect self-confidence, without the slightest presumption. — pp. 113,... | |
| Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - 734 pages
...was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human...I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. His conversation expressed perfect self-confidence, without the slightest presumption. Among the men... | |
| Robert Burns - 1834 - 402 pages
...a dark night, because they were first seen of any part of the Poet.—" I never saw," said Scott, " such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time." In his ordinary moods, Burns looked a man of a hundred; but when animated in company, he was a man... | |
| Robert Burns - 1834 - 420 pages
...a dark night, because they were first seen of any part of the Poet.—" I never saw," said Scott, " such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time." In his ordinary moods, Burns looked a man of a hundred; but when animated in company, he was a man... | |
| William Weir - 1834 - 656 pages
...and of a dark cast, and glowed, (I say literally glowed,) when he spoke with feeling or interest. 1 never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men in my time. His conversation expressed perfect self-confidence, without the slightest presumption.... | |
| Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1835 - 626 pages
...was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed (1 say literally glowed) when he spoke with feejing or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human...I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. His conversation expressed perfect self-confidence, without the slightest presumption. Among the men... | |
| Silas Jones - 1836 - 348 pages
...was large and of a dark cast, which glowed, (I say literally glowed) when he spoke, with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human...I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. 1 Independently of temperament and expression, however, there is a sufficiency of direct evidence of... | |
| Silas Jones - 1836 - 362 pages
...was large and of a dark cast, which glowed, (I say literally glowed) when he sp'oke, with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human...have seen the most distinguished men of my time." Independently of temperament and expression, however, there is a sufficiency of direct evidence of... | |
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