The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-15 00:00:00

H A MOLD.

" The countenance of Harold was, though sorrowful
at that moment, and indeed habitually not without a
certain melancholy, wonderfully imposing from its calm
and sweetness. There, no devouring passions had left
the cloud or ploughed the line ; but all the smooth love-
liness of youth took dignity from the conscious resolve of
man. The long hair, of a fair brown, with a slight tinge
of,gold, us the last sunbeams shot through its luxuriance,
was parted from the temples, and fell in large waves half
way to the shoulder. The eye-brows, darker in hue,
arched and finely traced ; the straight features not
less manly than the Norman, but less strongly
marked ; the cheek, hardy with exercise and expo-
sure, but still retaining somewhat of youthful bloom
under the pale bronze of its sunburnt surface ; the form
tall, not gigantic, and vigorous rather from perfect pro-
portion and athletic habits than from breadth and bulk—
were all singularly characteristic of the Saxon beauty in
its highest and purest type. But what chiefly distin-
guished this personage, was that peculiar dignity, so
simple, so sedate, which no pomp seems to dazzle, no
danger to disturb ; and which, perhaps, arises from a
strong sense of self• dependence, and is connected with
self-respect—a dignity common to the Indian and the
Arab, and rare except in that state of society in which
each man is a power in himself. The Latin tragic poet
touches close upon that sentiment in the fine lines—
"' Rex est qui metuit nihil
Iloc regnum quisque dat.'"
WILLIAM TUE CONQUEROR.

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pendant from the shoulders, left developed in all its
breadth a breast, that seemed meet to stay the march
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of an army; and on the left arm, curved to support the
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render; and the smooth visage and bare throat sufficed
in themselves to give the air of youth to that dominant
and imperious presence. His small skull-cap lett un-
concealed his forehead, shaded with short thick air, un-
curled, but black and glossy as the wings of a raven. It
was on that forehead that time had set its trace; it was
knit into a frown over the eyebrows; lines deep as fur-
rows crossed its broad, but not elevated expanse. That
frown spoke of hasty ire and the habit of stern com-
mand; those furrows spoke of deep thought and plot-
ting scheme: the one betrayed but temper and circum-
stance; the other, more noble, spsko of the character
and the intellect. The face was square, and the regard
lion-like; the mouth—small, and even beautiful in out-
line—had a sinister expression in its exceeding firm-
ness; and the jaw—vast, solid, as if bound in iron—
showed obstinate, ruthless, determined will; such a jaw
as belongs to the tiger amongst beasts, and the con-
queror amongst men; such as it is seen in the effigies of
(2resar, of Cortes, of Napoleon."