Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1862-01-16
IMPORTANCE OF THE NOSE.

1t is feature generally to be described by
negatives. 1t is of Importance, however, to
the rest of the face. If good nose will do
little for countenance otherwise poor bad
one is great injury to the best. A nose
merely well-drawn and proportional can be very
inspired. Some little freedom and delicacy is
required to give it character. The character
which most becomes it is that Of taste and APP
prehensiveness. And perfectly elegant face
has nose of this sort. Dignity, as regards
this feature, depends upon the expression of
the rest of the face. Thus, a large acquiline
nose increases the look Of strength i'll strong
face and weakness in weak one. The con
trast, the want of balance, is too great. Junius
adduces the authority of the sophist, for terra
qondl or quddrdngutdr nOses-noses ike those
of statues that is to say, broad and level on
the BRIDGE with distinct angles to the paraIlelo-
gram. These are better for men than women.
The genders of noses are more distinct than
those of eyes and lips. The neuter are the COM
monest nose little acquiline is not un-
handsome in a woman. Cyrus's Aspasla had
one, according to Ktian. But a large aquillne
nose is bad. II trenches upon the other sex,
and requires all the grace of Aspasia to carry
it of. We do not imagine angels with aqul-
line noses, and painters do not give them to
their ideal beauties all which is most true, but
shows at the same time how much depends up
on the nose, which Mr.. Leigh Hunt considers
of small account.
A recent Saturday Reviewer comes to the aid
of the nose and highly remarks that this alb
surd feature is the only one which has on no
occasion had civil things said of it =
The poets, (remarks the writer,) while they
lavish compliments upon eyes, checks, lips, and
chin, invariably shirk the nose, as though it
were thing quod rerSu deere non eSt-the in
PRODUCTION of which is enough to ruin a SON.
net "Who ever heard Of lover making a
woful ballad to his mistresss nose, or cntreat-
ing her to drink to him only with her nose, or
to take, oh, take that nose awayv' In fact it
is invariably ignored in most marked manner,
until it has become utterly demoralized and
then, with subtitle cruelty, it is apostrophsed
by the lyrist as "jolly nose" and ironically con-
graduated upon its "ruhies." And yet adds
its half detractor, half apologst-even laying
aside all considerations of mere utility, there is
not more important member in the whole
facial commonwealth, nor one which is regarded
by its possessor with more sincere though secret
affection.
Robert Southey had sharply defined and
well-pronounced outline of beak which bespeaks
frmness, keenness and acquisitive strength.
William Goodwin, the author of political JUS
tice," and of "Caleb Williams" has, as Southey
wrote to Cottle, Charge, noble eyes, and a nose
not vtuperative enough to describe the effects
of its downward eongation. / never see it
without longing to cut it off," Of his own nose
Southey says :-"By the by, DIR. - told me
that had exactly Lavater's nose; to my no
small satisfaction for | did not know what to
make of that protuberance or promontory of
mine" The nose upon his face was character
istically different from that of his friend and
fellow poet, Samuel TAYLOR Coeridge. Haz
lifts memorable portrait of Samuel Taylor
Coleridge presents us with a mouth gross, vol
uptuous, open, eloquent; a chin good humored
and round shut his nose the rudder of the
face, the index of the will, was a small, feeble
nothing-hke what he has done" If there was
anything aquline about Coleridge, it was in
his tendency to soar.
Wordsworth's nose, again, is described NV an
intimate observer as ga little arched and large =
which, by the way, according to natural
phrenology, existing centuries ago among some
OF the lowest OF the human species,) has always
been accounted an unequiyocal expression of
animal appetites organcally strong-something
of which, Mr.. De Quincy contends, will be found
to hold of all poets lwho have been great by
original force and power, not (as Virgil by
means of fine manage ment and exquisite artifce
of composition applied to their conceptions. Ii
another of the so called late poets, John Will
son of Elleray, be nosologically indentical with
Christopher North, he must have been as no.
tcable for his nose as that other noticeable man
for large gray eyes. "lhen what a nose Like
bridge along which might be driven carloads
O. intellect i-neither Roman nor Grecian,
hookit or cockit, a wee thocht inclined to the
ae side, the pint being a part and pendice o.
the whole, an object in itsel, but at the same
time finely smoothed aft aud on Until the fea-
tur; while his nostrs, small and red, look as
they would emit fire, and had the scent o. a
fowler or a vultur." Such, at least, is the Am
brosian Shepherd version of the subject-taken