96 LOUIS AGASSIZ 



A composite portrait stands out clearly 

 from the mere words or phrases that 

 various writers have fitted to Agassiz, if 

 we string them along in ungrammat- 

 ical sequence : His genial countenance, Ms 

 great face beaming with pleasure, the eyes 

 whose sunshine runs before the lips; a firm 

 benignity of face, and winning ways; his 

 phrases all the more taJcing for the broken 

 English; an inexhaustible buoyancy and 

 huge good fellowship ; robust and dominat- 

 ing ; cheerful, Jcindly, engaging, frank, ir- 

 resistible; ingenuous, glad, great-hearted, 

 and bewitching ; the jovial giant, the ac- 

 knowledged master ; a man to be thankful 

 for, with unsleeping observation and per- 

 fectly communicative; the unlettered woods- 

 man ran to meet his service; 'no one could 

 stand before his smile ; and he flooded every 

 company with the wealth of his own opulent 

 nature, 



"Brimful of lusty blood as ever ran, 

 And talcing life as simply as a tree ! " 



