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tobacco smoke. Great now and then when he does 

 emerge, a most restful, brotherly, solid-hearted 

 man. " 



Here we have Dickens in 1840: "Clear blue 

 intelligent eyes ; eyebrows that he arches amazingly ; 

 large, protrusive, rather loose mouth; a face of 

 most extreme mobility, which he shuttles about 

 eyebrows, eyes, mouth, and all in a very singular 

 manner while speaking. Surmount this with a 

 loose coil of common-colored hair, and set it on a 

 small compact figure, very small, and dressed a la 

 D'Orsay rather than well, this is Pickwick." 



Here is a glimpse of Grote, the historian of 

 Greece: "A man with straight upper lip, large 

 chin, and open mouth (spout mouth) ; for the rest, 

 a tall man, with dull, thoughtful brow and lank, 

 disheveled hair, greatly the look of a prosperous 

 Dissenting minister. " 



In telling Emerson whom he shall see in London, 

 he says: "Southey's complexion is still healthy 

 mahogany brown, with a fleece of white hair, and 

 eyes that seem running at full gallop; old Eogers, 

 with his pale head, white, bare, and cold as snow, 

 with those large blue eyes, cruel, sorrowful, and 

 that sardonic shelf chin." 



In another letter he draws this portrait of Web- 

 ster: "As a logic-fencer, advocate, or parliamen- 

 tary Hercules, one would incline to back him, at 

 first sight, against all the extant world. The 

 tanned complexion; that amorphous crag-like face; 

 the dull black eyes under their precipice of brows, 



