The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01
Carlyle's Description of Frederick the
Great's-Ruskin's Were Soft Blue.
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(New York JOurnal1
London.-Charles Draycott. writing in
the Temple Bar Magazine on the eyes
of famous men, tells for the first time
a number of interesting facts concern
ing the ocular organs of the great.
Here are some OF the eyes described:
No man had brighter eyes than By
ron; they were gray and fringed with
long, dark lashes. Lady BlessingtCl,
writing of him a few months before his
departure for Greece, adds that one
eye was visibly larger than the other
Charles Lamb is described as having
glittering eyes, strangely dissimilar IN
color, one being hazel, the other hav-
ing specNs Of gray in the iris, as you
see red spots in the bloOdstOne.
Eyes. as we know, are apt to vary
considerably from time to time-a fact
that explains why WOrdSwOrth's ia
miliar description of COleridge as a
noticeable man with large gray eyes,
does not quite agree with Carlyles lrE-
preston that his eyes were OF llsht
hazel nor this again with the writer,
who found them Light gray, prominent
and of liquid brilliancy, as though the
orb itself retreated to the 1nnermOSt re-
cesseS of the brain"
The Duke Of Wellington also had. It
is said, blue hawks eyes, cleaning
with military genius.
The most striking feature of Burns
was his large, dark eye. 1t was, we are
told by one writer, full Of mind. and
literally glCwed when he spoke with
emotion of interest" Sir Walter Scott,
who knew the poet when he lived in
Edinburgh. says: I never saw such
another eye in a human head, and
have seen the most distinguished men
of my time"
Carlyle says Frederick the Great had
such pair of eyes as no man, or
lion. or lynx of that century bore else
where. Most excellent, potent. bril-
liant eyes. swift-darting as he stares,
steadfaSt as the sun, superlatlVe gray,
of the azure gray cOlCr; large enough,
not of a glaring size; the habitual eX-
preston of them vigilance and pene-
trating sense, rapidity resting on depth
Which is an excellent combination, and
gives US the notion of a lambert outer
radiance SpTinging from some great IN
ner sea of light and fire in the man
What is this but the very essence or
the man distilled, as it were, from MS
eyes?
An officer describing Napoleon as he
appeared on board the BelleroPEon,
wrote: His eyes are gray. and the
most piercing you can imagine. His
glance, you fancy, searches into your
innermost thoughts" The late Prince
Bismarck had gray eyes in deep SOCKETS
almost hidden by bushy eyebrows
Lord WOlseley'S physical vigOr is said
to be indicated in his clear calm eye
of blue mot cold, but steady, pene-
trating and Observant.' Carlyle de-
scribes the eyes of Charles Dickens as
clear, blue and full of intelligence,
and Forster adds his impression o.
them as wonderfully beaming with in
tellect and running over with humor
and cheerfuiness." Douglas JerrOid
has keen blue eyes cleaning from be-
meath shaggy eyebrows
1t is an odd coincidence that two men
with such a different mission in the
world as John Ruskin and Won Moltke
should have been endowed with eyes
that might have proclaimed them
brothers The face of the great tactl-
clan was lighted, we are told, by a
pair of singularly soft blue eyes. and,
in the presence OF the author OF Mod
ern Painters" the gentle look in mis-
clear blue eyes is at once pleasantly
felt
The Duke of Marlborough has blue
eyes fsinged with long eyelashes and
strongly marked, we'll shaped eye
brows. which doubtless had their effect
in winning Turenne's admiration fof
the handsome Englishman, and the
keen, steel-blue eyes of Lord Roberts
are we'll known today
President Kruger is represented to
possess grave, shrewd eyes, usually
half closed, but which have knack OF
suddenly opening and fastening upon
YOU with look of intense penetration
The penetrating glance Of Goethes
dark lustrous eyes retained its bright
ness from childhood to age, and Leigh
Hunts "wondrous eyes were no less
beautiful in their aged than IN their
youthful aspect" Voltalre's eyes, too'
fent their brilliancy to extreme old age.
In this respect Mr.. Gladstone's eyes
were equally remarkable, and the same
NAV be said Of his holiness, Leo Kill