 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - Authors, English - 1885 - 328 pages
...rudder of the face, the index of the will, was small, feeble, nothing—like what he has done. . . . Coleridge, in his person, was rather above the common size, inclining to the corpulent. . . . His hair (now, alas! gray) was then black and glossy as a raven's, and fell in smooth masses... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - Authors, English - 1885 - 328 pages
...rudder of the face, the index of the will, was small, feeble, nothing — like what he has done. . . . Coleridge, in his person, was rather above the common size, inclining to the corpulent. . . . His hair (now, alas ! gray) was then black and glossy as a raven's, and fell in smooth masses... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...veering purpose, as if Columbus had launched his adventurous course for the New World in a scallop, (now, alas I grey) was then black and glossy as the raven's, and fell in smooth masses over his forehead.... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - Critics - 1887 - 188 pages
...rudder of the face, the index of the will, was small, feeble, nothing — like what he has done. . . . Coleridge in his person was rather above the common size, inclining to be corpulent. . . . His hair (now, alas ! grey) was then black and glossy as the raven's, and fell... | |
 | John H. Lloyd (of Highgate.) - Highgate (London, England) - 1888 - 552 pages
...rudder of the face, the index of the will, was small, feeble, nothing — like what he has done. * * * Coleridge in his person was rather above the common size, inclining to be corpulent. * * * His hair (now, alas! grey) was then black and glossy as the raven's, and fell in... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1889 - 586 pages
...veering purpose, as if Columbus had launched his adventurous course for the New World in a scallop, without oars or compass. So, at least, I comment on...like Lord Hamlet, " somewhat fat and pursy." His hair (now, alas ! grey) was then black and glossy as the raven's, and fell in smooth masses over his forehead.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1890 - 412 pages
...rudder of the face, the index of the will, was small, feeble — nothing like what he has done . . . Coleridge in his person was rather above the common size, inclining to the corpulent. His hair was then black and glossy as the raven's, and fell in smooth masses over his forehead." —... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1893 - 886 pages
...rudder of the face, the index of the will, was "nail, feeble, nothing — like what he has done. . . . Coleridge in his person was rather above the common size, inclining to the corpulent. . . . His hair . . . was then black and glossy as the raven's, and fell in smooth masses over his forehead.... | |
 | Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley - Authors, English - 1894 - 258 pages
...rudder of the face, the index of the will, was small, feeble, nothing. . . . Coleridge," he continues, " in his person was rather above the common size, inclining to the corpulent. . . . His hair," during the latter part of his life perfectly white, "was then black and glossy as... | |
 | James Dykes Campbell, Leslie Stephen - Poets, English - 1896 - 386 pages
...rudder of the face, the index of the will, was small, feeble, nothing — like what he has done. . . . Coleridge in his person was rather above the common...like Lord Hamlet, 'somewhat fat and pursy.' His hair (now, alas ! gray) was then black and glossy as the raven's, and fell in smooth masses over his forehead.... | |
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... surveyed and projected him (with sufficient capacity and huge aspiration) into the world unknown of thought and imagination, with nothing to support or guide his veering purpose, as if Columbus had launched his adventurous course for the New World... 
