Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1873-02-27
Concerning Noses.


twill be found that the most extra
ordinary men of every age have been
distinguished by having extraordinary
noses. Beginning with the ancients,
Scipio Nasica derived his name from
the prominent share of this feature pos
sessed by him; so did Ovid, surnamed
Naso, on which account pope repre-
sents his flatterers persuading him that
he had "a nose like Ovid's;" Cicero's
nose was distinguished by a vetch;
Sylla's by profusion ofpimples. This
latter made great figure in those
days, and the Athenians, while he was
besieging them, cut a number of jokes
omit. They compared it to "a mulber-
ry dredged over with meal" as we
read in Plutareh's life of Sylla. This
joke. as many other jocose things often
do, cost the inventors of it very dearly
when the revenged dictator put his
nose within their city gate. The nose
OF Cromwell was well calculated to vie
with that of his Roman prototype, if
we may credit Cleveland, Birkenhead,
and other contemporary WRITER'S
"Cromwell's faoe,n says Birkenhead,
"wears natural tiffany, and his chin
may furnish rusty coat of mari. His
nose is comet in grain. Certainly it
is no human feature, but the emblem
of n mandrakeI And yet this basalisk
would king it,"
Napoleon L. Was wont to say: "Give
me a man with plenty of nose-long
nose, long head" His best Generals,
were, as rule, remarkably well pro-
vided in this particular. His own was
exquisitely chiseled, sculpturesque in
mold, form, and expression; though
strangely enough, not one of his BROTH
ers had a nose worth looking at. But
the most prominent nose in all Europe
was Arthur, Duke Of Wellington's.-
And the Iron Dukes captains, Picton,
Anglesey, Combermere and Hardinge,
were men all noteworthy in this re-
spect also. Sir Charles Napier, the
conqueror of Scinde, was similarly fa-
vored. His nose was "like the beak of
an eagle, it was curved and keen as the
blade of scythe." In a celebrated
debate in the House of Commons,
Sheridan compared Pitts nose to the
steeple of Strasbourg; Pitt retorted by
likening that of Sheridan to "fiery
meteor" Sherry's feature, ION the
coloring of which thousands of pounds
of his creditors money had been spent,
still CLEANS like fiery comet from the
caricatures of ofGillray." The late Lord
Kelly had such another nose, and he
had very red face altogether. spray,
my lord" said Foote to him, "come
and look over my garden wall-my
cucumbers are very backward"
Lord Brougham's nose, 1.-THE, fexi-
Bile, mobile, now wagging with ingnite
humor, now beaving with terrific
wrath, has been the theme of ten
thousand pens. BY the way, Senor
Oreuse, the veteran leader of the Re
publican party in Spain, is said to be
about duplicate oe the late Lord
Brougham, the similarity of face, even
to the unmistakable nose, being won
derful. Mrs. Siddons' was another re-
markab!e nose, and it gave great trou-
Bile to Sir Joshua Reynolds. The prince
of portrait painters was completely
baffied by 1t. For whole week he
had been at the feature, and could not
get the hang of it by hook or crook =
The witchery of the tradgedy queens
great, merry, yetserious eyes, the ripe
ness, tinctured with tenderness, and
touched With a soupeon of scorn, of the
small mouth; the gloom of the eye
brows, the dimple in the chin, the in
imitable curve of the graceful neck,
the curly head, surmounted by the
cavalier hat, tine laze gracefulness of
attitude-all were there, true to the
original; but then the nose. Booth,
the well known actor, had a broken
nose. A lady once remarked to him,
81 like your acting, Mr.. Booth; but to
be frank with you, can't get over
your nose" "No wonder, madam"
replied he, 'the bridge is gone. p Cas-
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