 | Edmund David Jones - Criticism - 1924 - 636 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.... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 924 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...corpulent, or like Lord Hamlet, "somewhat fat and pursy." 1 His hair (now, alas! gray) was then black and glossy as the raven's, and fell in smooth masses over... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 928 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...corpulent, or like Lord Hamlet, "somewhat fat and pursy." 1 His hair (now, alas! gray) was then black and glossy as the raven's, and fell in smooth masses over... | |
 | Robert Keith Lapp - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 224 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 it after the event. (17: 109) From the sublime forehead to the bathetic nose, from Columbus to the tossing "scallop, without... | |
 | Adam Sisman - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 540 pages
...round; but his nose, the rudder of the face, the index of the will, was small, feeble, nothing . . . Coleridge, in his person, was rather above the common size, inclining to the corpulent . . . His hair (now, alas! grey) was then black and glossy as the raven's, and fell in smooth masses... | |
 | 326 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 - 1925 - 216 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...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.... | |
 | English periodicals - 1905 - 816 pages
...Johnson. Hazlitt in his essay, " My first acquaintance with poets," describes Coleridge in 1798 as " rather above the common size, inclining to the corpulent, or like Lord Hamlet, ' somewhat fat and pursy.' " John day was a most corpulent poet. Dryden was short and, in his matnrer years, fat. Was he not known... | |
 | 376 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 it after the event. Now 60 to 70 drops of laudanum is no beginner's dose. Of the two Wordsworths, William was now midway... | |
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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... 
