 His nose is straight and rather handsome, his mouth expressive of sensibility and emotion. He is tall, and erect, with an air free, brave and manly. When conversing, he is full of gesture and force, and loses himself in his subject. There is no grace,...  Herman Melville - Page 56by John Freeman - 1926 - 200 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Literature - 1894 - 1228 pages
...power; but what astonishes me is that his eyes are not large and deep. He seems to see everything very accurately; and how he can do so with his small eyes,...an air free, brave, and manly. When conversing, he K full of gesture and force, and loses himself in hLs subject. There is no grace nor polish. Once in... | |
 | Rose Hawthorne Lathrop - 1897 - 516 pages
...; but what astonishes me is, that his eyes are not large and deep. He seems to see everything very accurately ; and how he can do so with his small eyes,...and loses himself in his subject. There is no grace nor polish. Once in a while, his animation gives place to a singularly quiet expression, out of these... | |
 | Raymond Melbourne Weaver - 1921 - 442 pages
...power; but what astonishes me is, that his eyes are not large and deep. He seems to see everything very accurately; and how he can do so with his small eyes,...and loses himself in his subject. There is no grace nor polish. Once in a while, his animation gives place to a singularly quiet expression, out of these... | |
 | Book collecting - 1922 - 756 pages
...eyes are not large and deep. He seems to see everything very accurately; and how he can do BO with bis small eyes, I cannot tell. They are not keen eyes,...either, but quite undistinguished in any way. His nose la straight and rather handsome, his mouth expressive of sensibility and emotion. He is tall, and erect,... | |
 | 1895 - 982 pages
...power; but what astonishes me is that his eyes are not large and deep. He seems to see everything very accurately ; and how he can do so with his small eyes,...and loses himself in his subject. There is no grace nor polish. Once in a while his animation gives place to a singularly quiet expression, out of these... | |
 | Julian Markels - American fiction - 1993 - 180 pages
...but what astonishes me is, that his eyes are not large & deep — He seems to see every thing very accurately; and how he can do so with his small eyes,...eyes, either, but quite undistinguished in any way. . . . once in a while, his animation gives place to a singularly quiet expression ... an indrawn, dim... | |
 | Hershel Parker - Novelists, American - 1996 - 1014 pages
...astonishes me is that his eyes are not large & deep — He seems to see every thing very accurately & how he can do so with his small eyes, I cannot tell....quite undistinguished in any way. His nose is straight & rather handsome, his mouth expressive of sensibility & emotion — He is tall & erect with an air... | |
 | Jana L. Argersinger, Leland S. Person - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 398 pages
...astonishes me is, that his eyes are not large & deep — He seems to see every thing very accurately, & how he can do so with his small eyes, I cannot tell. . . . His nose is straight & rather handsome, his mouth expressive of sensibility & emotion — He... | |
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