St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-03-01
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Emerson used To say thSs each man
carried in his eye the exact fndicaeon
of his rank in the immense scale OF men.
Another close observer Of human nature
asserts that persons with prominent
eyes are found to have great command
Of words and to be ready speakers ana
writer's. A third holds the theory that
the prevailing color Of the eyes Of mon
Of genius is gray.
, Colonel Higginson speaks Of Nathaniel
Hawthorne's gray eyes" while Z. II.
Underwood, ''who once studied them at
tentively, found them mottled gray sPd
brown and indcscribably soft and win
ming" Elsewhere We nnd 1t asserted
that mo finer eyes had appeared in tho
literary circle of Great Britain since
Burns time than those Of Hawthorne.
David Gray's were Large and lus-
trous,r and Dante Rossetti's ''gray-blue,
clear and piercing, and Characterised BY
that rapid, penetrating gaze 80 notice
able in Emerson"
Shelley's eyes are always spoken OF
. IS magnificent, and fully indicative OF
his wayward genius. One writer de-
scribcs them IS large and animated.
with dash of wildness In them;" an
other speaks Of them - ''such pair Of
eyes Is are rarely seen in . human OF
any other head. intently blue. with .
gentle and lambert expression. yet won-
derfully alert and engrossing." Med
with, while writing Of Shelley's sppear-
ance, refers to his blue eyes. ''very
large and prominent They were 1t
times. when he was abstracted, - he
often was in contemplation. dull, and.
as it were. insensible to external OBJ
jects; at others, they flashed with the
lrc Of intelligence" Tom M0ore's
eyes were las dark and hne - you
would wish to see under , set Of vine
leaves"
OF Coleridge it is reported: "His-
forehead was prodigious-A great piece
Of placid marble; and his fine eyes, in
which all the activity Of his mind
seemed to concentrate, moved under is
with . sprightly ease, ~ II it wero
pastime to them 20 carry
all that thought" Another friend
Of his writes: ''The upper part
Of Coleridge's face was excessively
fine. His eyes were large, light gray,
and prominent Of liquid brillisncy.
which some eyes Of Ane character may
be observed to possess, as though the
orb itself retreated to the inner.
most recess Of the brain" In his Life
of Sterling" Carlyle intrOduces his fs-
nous description Of Coleridge's appear
ance. ''The deep eyes. Of . light basel.
were," he says, ''as full Of SORROWS - Of
inspirations; confused pain looked mild
" from them. - in kind Of mild as
tOnishment" .,1.r y 49,.
The eyes Of Keats were described by
one OF his contemporaries as mellow
and glowing; large. dark and sendtive."L
Cowden Clarke states that they were Of
brown color. or dark hassl, thus con-
tradicting Mrs Proctor's assertion that
they were ''blue."
''The finest eyes, in every sense Of
the word, which have seon in . naASe
head land have seen many fne onesl
are those Of Thomas Carlyle" Such is
the testimony of Leigh Hunt In . de-
scription OF the 'Chelsea Sage" as .
lecturer at Willis rooms, we find tho
following: There hs stood. sugg0 Of
feature, brow abrupt like, . low clt6.
craggy over eyes deep set. t.slarge. pierc-
ing, between blue and DARK gray, full Of
rolling fire." -.-..s .sr 1.
Leigh Hunt. in his Autobiography"
speaking Of wordsworth's appearsnce.
says: Il never beheld eyes that looked
10 inspired or supernatural. They were
like fires hall burning. half smsuadsf.
| ing, with q sort et asrid fixture Of .re-
gard, and seated at the further end OF
two caverns.' One might imagine Ese-
kiel or Isaiah to have had such eyee. -
Walter Scott says Of Burns: ''There
was . strong expression Of sense end
shrewdness in all his lineaments; tho
eye alone, think, indicated the poetical
character and temperament 1t was
large, and Of class shat slowed II say
literally sglowed). when he spoke with
feeling or interest I never saw such
another eye in human head, though
have seen the most distinguished men
OF nv timc." -Chambers' Journal.