Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-01-08


1t is feature generally to be described by
negatives. 1t is of Importance, however, to
the rest of the face. II good nose will do
little for a countenance otherwise poor, bad
one is great injury to the best A nose mere
~ well-dra~n and prop0rtOnet can be very
inspired. Some little freedom ana delicacy is
required to give it character. The character
which most becomes il is that of taste and an.
prehensiveness And perfectly elegant face
has nose OF this SORT. Dignity, as regards
this feature, depends upon tile expression of
the rest OF the face. Thus, a large aquiline
nose increases the look OF strength in strong
face, and weakness in weak one. The
contrast, the want of balance, is too great.
Junius adduces the authority OF the sophist,
for tetrlqondt or quddIdnguior noses--nOses like
those Of statues that is to say, broad and
level on the bridge, with distinct angles to the
paraiielogram. These are better Tor men than
women. The genders of noses are more dis
tnct than those OF eyes and lips. The neuter
are the commonest. A nose u little aquiline
is not unhandsome in woman CyrlIs's AS
pasta had one, according to 1Elian But a
large aqulline nose is bad 1t trenches upon
the other sex, aud requires all the grace OF
Aspasa TO carry it off We do not imagine
angels with aquiline noses, aud painters do not
give them 10 their ideal beauties all which is
much depends upon the nose, which Mr. Leigh
Hunt considers OF small account
A recent Saturday Reviewer comes to the
aid OF the nose. and rightly remarks that this
absurd feature is The only one which has on
no occasion had civil things said OF il -
The poets, (remarks tie writer, while they
lavish compliments upon eyes, cheeks, lips,
and chin, invariably shirk the nose, as though
it were thing quod UerSu deere non eSt-the iu-
PRODUCTION of which is enough TO ruin SON
net. "Wlo ever heard Of lover making a
woul ballard to his mistress's nose or Ell
treating her to drink to him only with her
nose, or TO take, oh, take that nose away 20
In fact, it is invariably ignored in most
marked manner, until it has become utterly
demorallzed and then, with subtle cruelty,
it is apostrophised by the yrist as "loly
nose" and ironically congratulated upon its
"rubles. And yet, adds lis half deractor,
halt apologlst-even laying aside all consider
atoms OF mere utility, there is not more inn
porlant member in the whole facial common.
wealth, nor one which is regarded by its pos.
SCISSOR with more sincere though secret affect.
ion
Robert Southey had a sharply defined and
wel-pronounced outline of beak winch be-
speaks hrmness, keenness, and acquistive
strength. William Goodwin, the author of
is,
has, as Southey wrote to Cotte, "large, noble
eyes, and nOSe-oh, most ahominable nose
Language is not vituperative enough to de.
scribe the effects OF its downward elongatiOn.
never see it without longing to cut it of. "
VI his own nose Southey says :-"By the by,
DIR - told me that had exactly Lavater's
nose; to my no small satisfaction, for 1 did
not know what to make Of that protuberauce
or promontory o mine" The nose upon his
face was Enthusiastically different from that
OF his friend and fellow. poet, Samuel Tay lor
Coleridge. Hazlitt's memorable portrait of
Samuel Taylor Coleridge presents us with a
mouth gross, voluptuous, open, eloquent; a
chin good-humored and round 'but his nose,
the rudder OF the face, the index of the will
was small, feeble nothing-iike what he has
done" 1t there was anything aquiline about
Colgrldge, 1t was in his tendency TO soar
wordsworth nose again, is described by
an intimate observer as "a little arched and
large; which, by the way, according TO a
natural phrenology, existing centuries apo
amoug some of the lowest OF the human sne.
cles,l has always been accounted an uneo,iIv.
Ocal expression OF animal appetites ornanitallv
strOng-S0methlng OF which, MIR. de Quincy
contends, will be toCnd to hold of all poeis
who have been great by original force and
power not las Virgil by means OF fine man.
agement aud exquisite artitice of composition
applied TO their conceptions. If another o:
tile so called lake poets, John Wilson of Eller.
ay, be nosologically identical with Christopher
North, he must have been as noticeable for his
nose AS that other noticeable man for large
gray eyes. Then what nose Like a
bridge, along which might be driven carloads
o intellect ;-neither Roman nor Grecian
h00kit or cOckit, Il wee th0cht Inclined to the
ne side, the pint being u part and pendcle o.
the whole, an object in ils,l but at the same
time finely smOolhed aft and on Until the lea.
tnr; while his nostrils, small and red, look as
they would emit fire, and had the scent o. a
jowler or vultur." Such, at least is the
Ambrosian Shepherd version of the subject
taken while Mr.. North is sitting asleep il
his easy chair, with his arms akimbo on hi.
crutuh.
Rocllefoucauld, after telling Us that he wai
OF a middle height, well proportional and
hlgh forehead, aud small black eyes sunk deer
~ ms mead, aud ihick black eyebrows, mai
oien to~nes, and proceeds to state his difficult,
IN defining the exact sort OF nose he reioiceI
in; for, says the duke, "it is neither fat. no
aquilne, nor big, nor ponted-at least so IN,
as am aware; all know about il is. that i
is rather large than a little one. and that /
comes down a rifle too low" Meister snvs n
Grimm that his nose was rather an oversize,
one, with slight twist in it, but wa, never
theless most signally expressive of sagacit,