...look and a word, which, though of mere civility, I then received and still recollect with very great pleasure. " His person was strong and robust ; his...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....

...look and a word, which, though of mere civility, I then received, and still recollect, with very great pleasure. His person was strong and robust ; his manners...from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think,...

...wadna hae feared the deil suppose he had met him. An' then siccan an ee he had!" —Memoir of Burnt. " His person was strong and robust, his manners rustic,...from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. ... I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits There was a strong...

...his manners rustic, not clc'vnish ; a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity, which received nart of its effect perhaps from one's knowledge of his...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....

...about 17 years of age, once saw the poet in a bookseller's shop in Edinburgh — • " His pei-son was strong and robust ; his manners rustic, not clownish...simplicity, which received part of its effect, perhaps, from ones knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr Nasmyth's picture ;...

...Scott, who, when about 17 years of age, once saw the poet in a bookseller's shop in Edinburgh — ' ' His person was strong and robust ; his manners rustic,...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....

...great delineator of Scotland and its people then proceeds to the portraiture of the national poet: — "His person was strong and robust; his manners rustic,...from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. ... I would have taken the poet, had I not known what he was, for a very sagacious farmer of the old...

...and a word, which, " though of mere civility, I then received, and still '' recollect with very great pleasure." " His person was strong and robust, his...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....

...and a word, which, " though of mere civility, I then received, and still " recollect with very great pleasure." " His person was strong and robust, his...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....

...interested in his poetry, met him one evening, and forty years afterwards wrote this recollection of him : "His person was strong and robust ; his manners rustic,...from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits. I should have taken...