 mark, among others, Scott on Burns: "I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. . . . There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character...  Biographical and Critical Studies - Pàgina 470per James Thomson - 1896 - 483 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1828 - 586 pàgines
...Nasmyth's picture, but to me it conveys the idea, that they are diminished as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. I would have taken the poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - 734 pàgines
...Nasmyth's picture, but to me it conveys the idea, that they are diminished as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. I would have taken the poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1828 - 342 pàgines
...Nasmyth's picture, but to me it conveys the idea, that they are diminished as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. I would have taken the poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the... | |
 | William Weir - 1834 - 656 pàgines
...Nasmyth's picture, but to me it conveys the idea that they are diminished as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. I would have taken the poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1835 - 626 pàgines
...Nasmyth's picture, but to me it conveys the idea, that they are diminished as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. I would have taken the poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 628 pàgines
...Nasmyth's picture, but to me it conveys the idea, that they are diminished as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. . I would havo taken the poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sa. gacious country farmer of... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 610 pàgines
...Nasmyth's picture, but to me it conveys the idea that they are diminished as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. I would have taken the poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 476 pàgines
...Nasmyth's picture : but to me it conveys the idea that they are diminished, as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. I should have taken the poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious counBURNS. 329 try... | |
 | James Currie - 1838 - 92 pàgines
...picture ; but to me it conveys the idea that they are diminished, as if scon in perspective. I think hie countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. I would have token the poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 422 pàgines
...Nasmyth's picture, but to me it conveys the idea that they are diminished as if seen in perspective. I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. I would have taken the poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious country farmer of the... | |
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