Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-07-25
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The most extraordinary men of every
age have been distinguished Ivy having
extraordinary noses. Beginning with the
ancienls, Scipio Nasica derived his name
from the prominent share of this feature
possessed by him; so did Ovid, surnamed
Naso, on which account Pope represents
his flatterers persuading him that he had
"a nose like Ovid's;' Ciceros nose was
distinguished by velch; Sylla's by pro-
fusion of pimples. This latter made
great figure in those days, and the Atheni-
ans, while he was besieSing them, cut
number of jokes on ii. They compared ii
to "a mulberry dredged over with meal
as we read in Plutarchs life of Sylla. This
joke, as many other jocOse things often do,
cost the inventors Of it very dearly when
the revengeful dictator put his nose within
their city gates.
The nose of Cromwell was wei calculat-
ed to vie with that of his Roman prototype,
if we may credit Cleveland, Burkenhead,
and other contemporary writer's. "Crom-
Wells face" says Burkenbead, "wcars
natural tiffany, and his chin may furnish
a rusty coat of mail. His nose is comet
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but the emblem of mandrake. And yet
this Lasilisk would king t!' Napoleon the
First was wont to say, Find me man
with plenty of nose-long nose, long head"
His best generals were, as rule, remarkably
well provided in this particular. His own
was exquisitely chisced, sculpturesque in
mould, form and expression, though,
strangely enough, not one Of his brothers
had nose worth looking at.
But the most prominent nose in Europe
was Arthur, Duke of Welingten's. And
the Iron Dukes captains, Anglescy, Pic
ton, Combermere and Har1ingc, were all
men noteworthy in this respect also. Sir
Charles Napier, the cUnqueror of Send,
was similarly favored. His nose was "like
the beak of an eagle it was curved and
keen as the blade Of a scythe." In cele-
brated debate in the House OF Commons,
Sheridan compared Pitts nose to tue
seeple OF Slrausburg; Pitt retored by lik-
ening that of Sheridan TO a "firey meteor"
Sherry's, con the coloring of which thou
sands of pounds of his creditors money
had been spent, still CLEANS like frey
comet from the caricatuies of Gillay." The
late Lord Kelley had such another nose,
and he had a very red flee altogether.
"Pray, my Lord, said Foote to him, ''come
and look over my garden wall-my cucGm-
bers are very Backward
Lord Brough1m's uuS,', little, flexible.
mobile, now wagging with infinic humor,
now heaving with terrific wrath. has been
the theme Of ten thousand pens. BY the
way, Senior Oryu,c the veteran leader OF
the Republican party in Spain. is said 10 be
about duplicate of the late Lord Brous-
ham, the similarity of face, even to the un-
mistakable nose, being wonderful. Mrs.
Sddons, was another remarkable nose, and
| it gave great trouble to Sir Joshua Rey
nods. The prince Of portrait painters was
completely baflled by it. For a whole
week he had been at the feature, and could
not get tue hang of it by book or crook.
The wiichery of the tragedy queens great,
merry, yet serious eyes; the ripencss, tine
tured with tenderness, and touched with a
scoupeon of scorn, of the small mouth, the
gloom of the eyebrows, the dmple in the
| chin, the inimitable curve of the graceful
neck, the curly head, surmounted by the
cavalier bat, the lazy graceiulness of atu-
tude-all were there, true to the originals;
but then the nose! Booth, the welknown
actor had broken nose. a lady once re-
marked to him, Il like your acting" Mr..
Booth, "but, to be frank with you, / can't
get over your nose" "No wonder, mad
am" replied he, "the bridge is gone 4
prodigiously long nose had Sir William
Chere. One day while playing backgam-
mon with Gen, Brown, Sir William, who
was snuff-taker, was continually using
his snuff box, and leaning over the table
Feeling annoyed al this, and being at the
same time in a very bad humor with the
game, the General said testify, "Sir Will
liam, blow your nose!' "Blow it your
self" answered Chere, "'tis as near you as
mel"
But by the side Of the gloriousy inmor-
tai nose that Shakespeare drew, that of Bar
dolph, all other jolly noses must hide their
diminished lustre. We may apostrophize il
in the very words of honest Jack, "Thou
art the Admiral! Thou Dearest the lanthorr
in the poop, but tits the nose of thee. Thou
art the Knight of the Burning Lamp
Oil thou art perpetual triumph, an YER
lasting bonfire lightr'-CdSSeUS Magazine