 | Richard Herne Shepherd - 1879 - 238 էջ
...not been two minutes in the drawing-room " before Tennyson walked in. So unlike are the pub" lished portraits of him' that I was almost in doubt " as...but he is tall and broad-shouldered " as a son of Ariak> with hair, beard, and eyes of " southern darkness. Something in the lofty brow and " aquiline... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1885 - 524 էջ
...bloom of a crescent of sea " glimmered afar. I had not been two minutes in the drawing-room belbre Tennyson walked in. So unlike are the published portraits...Something in the lofty brow and aquiline nose suggests Datite, but such a deep, mellow chestvoice never could have come from Italian lungs. He proposed a... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1896 - 208 էջ
...English author (Thackeray), that Tennyson was the wisest man he knew." Of the outward man he spoke as " Tall and broad-shouldered as a son of Anak, with hair, beard, and eyes of Southern darkness."* Hawthorne found the poet "as un-English as possible," though not American in appearance. " I cannot... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1897 - 592 էջ
...which the blue veins shone." Force and fineness were united in him. Bayard Taylor speaks of him as " tall and broad-shouldered as a son of Anak, with hair, beard, and eyes of Southern darkness." Edward Fitzgerald calls him " a man at all points of grand proportion and feature, of great strength,... | |
 | Elisabeth Luther Cary - 1898 - 426 էջ
...walked in. So unlike are the published portraits of him that I was almost in doubt as to his identity.1 The engraved head suggests a moderate stature, but...aquiline nose suggests Dante, but such a deep, mellow chest voice never could have come from Italian lungs. " He proposed a walk as the day was wonderfully... | |
 | Evan J. Cuthbertson - 1898 - 138 էջ
...evolving for twenty years. Of visitors he had full share — Bayard Taylor, who described him as ' tall and broad-shouldered as a son of Anak, with hair, beard, and eyes of southern darkness ; ' Sydney Dobell, the poet, who records that 'the country people are much amazed at his bad hat and... | |
 | Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 304 էջ
...published portraits of him, that I was almost in doubt as to his identity. The engraved heads suggest a moderate stature, but he is tall and broad-shouldered...southern darkness. Something in the lofty brow and acquiline nose suggests Dante, but such a deep mellow chest-voice never could have come from Italian... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1908 - 208 էջ
...English author (Thackeray), that Tennyson was the wisest man he knew." Of the outward man he spoke as " Tall and broad-shouldered as a son of Anak, with hair, beard, and eyes of Southern darkness." * Hawthorne found the poet " as un-English as possible," though not American in appearance. " I cannot... | |
 | 1909 - 304 էջ
...though they have some general characteristics of his, they do not satisfy me as individual enough. ' Tall and broad-shouldered as a son of Anak, with hair,...aquiline nose suggests Dante, but such a deep, mellow, chest voice never could have come from Italian lungs,' so Bayard Taylor described him in 1857. Carlyle's... | |
 | 1898 - 756 էջ
...the drawing-room before Tennyson walked in. So unlike are the published portraits of him* that I wa« almost in doubt as to his identity. The engraved head...aquiline nose suggests Dante, but such a deep, mellow chest voice never could have come from Italian lungs. "He proposed a walk, as the daywas wonderfully... | |
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on the lawn, and the " liquid azure bloom of a crescent of sea" glimmered afar. I had not been two minutes in the drawing-room before Tennyson walked in. So unlike are the published portraits of him that I was almost in doubt as to his identity. The... 