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" There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large and of a dark cast, which glowed, I say literally glowed, when he spoke with feeling or... "
Old Words and Modern Meanings: Being a Collection of Examples from Ancient ... - Page 257
edited by - 1876 - 314 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 48

1828 - 722 pages
...agriculturists who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce gudeman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...and temperament. It 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...
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Constable's miscellany of original and selected publications

Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - 734 pages
...agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce gudeman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...and temperament. It 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...
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The Athenaeum, Volume 2

1828 - 268 pages
...agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce gitdcman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...and temperament. It 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...
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Life of Robert Burns

John Gibson Lockhart - 1828 - 324 pages
...agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce giideman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...and temperament. It 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...
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Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc, Volume 12

William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1828 - 882 pages
...their drudgery, but the ttmice gudeman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression of seme and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character ;md temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowtd) when he spoke...
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Time's Telescope

1830 - 472 pages
...agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce gudeman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments; the eye alone, 1 think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 2

1835 - 842 pages
...strong and robust: his manners rustic, not clownish, a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed, (I say literally glowed,) when he spoke with feeling or interest." "I never saw another...
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Practical Phrenology

Silas Jones - 1836 - 348 pages
...had the fortune to see Burns, gives the following account of the natural language of his features : ' There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...and temperament. It 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...
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The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany, Volume 9

1836 - 694 pages
...had the fortune to see Burns, gives the following account of the natural language of his features : " There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...and temperament. It 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...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 2

1836 - 802 pages
...the poetical character and tfrm[>çr3(iiçht. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed, (1 sny literally glowed,) when he spoke with feeling or interest." "I never saw another such tye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. His conversation...
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