Latest Literary Essays And Addresses of James Russell Lowell
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What I can recollect, therefore, illustrates rather the manner of the man than his matter. His personal appearance has been suffi- ciently desc:^ibed by others. I will only add, that the suffused and uniform ruddiness of his face, in which the forehead, already heightened by baldness, shared, and something in the bearing of his head, reminded me vividly of the late President Quincy, as did also a certain hearty resonance of speech. You felt yourself in the presence of one who was emphatically a... Man, not the image of a man ; so emphatically, indeed, that even Carlyle thought the journey to Bath not too dear a price to pay for 62 WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR seeing Mm, and found something royal in him. When I saw him he was in his seventy-eighth year, but erect and vigorous as in middle life. There was something of challenge even in the alertness of his pose, and the head was often thrown back like that of a boxer who awaits a blow. He had the air of the arena. I do not remember that his head was large, or his eyes in any way remarkable.
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