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featured, dim-eyed, bronze - colored, shaggy - headed 

 man is Alfred ; dusty, smoky, free and easy, who swims 

 outwardly and inwardly with great composure in an 

 inarticulate element of tranquil chaos and 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, intel- 

 ligent 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 com- 

 mon-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 brows 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 mahog- 

 any brown, with a fleece of white hair, and eyes that 

 seem running at full gallop ; old Rogers, 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 parliamentary 

 Hercules, one would incline to back him, at first sight, 



