 His forehead is bony and full of character, with " bumps" of wit, large and radiant, enough to transport a phrenologist. His eyes are as dark and fine, as you would wish to see under a set of vine-leaves ; his mouth generous and good-humoured, with dimples...  Belgravia - Page 89by Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 1878Full view - About this book
 | Leigh Hunt - Authors - 1828 - 512 pages
...have seen fair play with his good living, and kept his look as juvenile as his spirit. His forehead is bony and full of character, with " bumps" of wit,...large and radiant, enough to transport a phrenologist. His eyes are as dark and fine, as you would wish to see under a set of vine-leaves ; his mouth generous... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Authors, English - 1850 - 348 pages
...himself, and the Falklands and Haleses of Clarendon, and Pope, and Steele, and Reynolds, and Mozart. Moore's forehead was bony and full of character, with...dark and fine as you would wish to see under a set of vineleaves ; his mouth generous and good-humored, with dimples ; and his manner as bright as his talk,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Authors, English - 1850 - 354 pages
...himself, and the Falklands and Haleses of Clarendon, and Pope, and Steele, and Reynolds, and Mozart. Moore's forehead was bony and full of character, with...dark and fine as you would wish to see under a set of vine-leaves ; his mouth generous and good-humoured, with dimples ; and his manner as bright as his... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Authors, English - 1850 - 354 pages
...himself, and the Falklands and Haleses of Clarendon, and Pope, and Steele, and Reynolds, and Mozart. Moore's forehead was bony and full of character, with...dark and fine as you would wish to see under a set of vine-leaves ; his mouth generous and good-humoured, with dimples ; and his manner as bright as his... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 782 pages
...character, with bumps of No. UO. " 1 wit large and radiant enough to transport a phrenologist ; his eyes are as dark and fine as you would wish to see under a set of vine-leaves ; his mouth, generous and good-humoured, with dimples ; " his nose, sensual and prominent,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1852 - 610 pages
...semi-barbarous Governments. LEIGH HUNT'S DESCRIPTION OF Том MOORE. — "Moore's forehead," says Leigh Hunt, " was bony and full of character, with ' bumps' of wit,...large and radiant enough to transport a phrenologist. In this particular he strongly resembled Sterne. His eyes were as dark and as fine as you could wish... | |
 | Ireland - 1852 - 486 pages
...seen fair play with his good living, and kept his look as juvenile as his spirit. His forehead is long and full of character, with ' bumps ' of wit, large and radiant, enough to transport a phrenologist. His eyes are as dark and fine, as you would wish to see under a set of vine-leaves : his mouth generous... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Poets, Irish - 1853 - 482 pages
...seen fair play with his good living, and kept his look ns juvenile as his spirit. His forehead is long and full of character, with " bumps" of wit, large and radiant, enough to transport a phrenologist. His eyes are as dark and fine, as you would wish to see under a set of vine-leaves : his mouth generous... | |
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