 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1855 - 584 pages
...appeared more so from his having his hair (to preserve it, as he said) shaved over the temples ; wnile the glossy, dark-brown curls, clustering over his...complexion colourless, as good an idea perhaps as it is in the power of mere words to convey may be conceived of his features. In height he was, as he himself... | |
 | Teresa Guiccioli (contessa di) - 1869 - 480 pages
...his having his hair (to preserve it, as he said) shaved over the temples. Still the glossy dark brown curls, clustering over his head, gave the finish to...complexion colourless, as good an idea perhaps as it is in the power of mere words to convey may be conceived of his features. " In height he was, as he... | |
 | Teresa Guiccioli (contessa di) - Poets, English - 1869 - 676 pages
...appeared more so from his having his hair (to preserve it, as he said) shaved over the temples. Still the glossy dark-brown curls, clustering over his head,...his teeth were white and regular, and his complexion colorless, as good an idea perhaps as it is in the power of mere words to convey may be conceived of... | |
 | George Eric Mackay - 1876 - 132 pages
...The forehead, though a little too narrow, was high, and appeared more so from his having his hair (to preserve it, as he said) shaved over the temples;...complexion colourless, as good an idea, perhaps, as it is in the power of mere words to convey, may be conceived of his features. In height he was, as he... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 870 pages
...The forehead, though a little too narrow, was high, and appeared more so from his having his hair (to ) too thickly shaped, that his teeth were white and regular, and his complexion colourless, as good an... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 826 pages
...been made in the Memoir, and offered from Us Imvlng his hnir (to preserve it he Raid) shaved over Hie temples, while the glossy dark-brown curls, clustering...over his head, gave the finish to its beauty. When to i hi • is added that his nose, though handsomely, was rather too thickly shaped, that his teeth were... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 824 pages
...pave the finish to it* be:*uty. When to thi* is added that his now:, though handsomely, was rather too thickly shaped, that his teeth were white and regular, and his complexion co^uriess. it* goud an idi-a perhaps as it is in the po\ver cl mere words to Ciuivtiy r.iay IK- conceived... | |
 | American periodicals - 1883 - 860 pages
...them? In the flattering portrait of him by Moore, it is stated that his eyes were light grey : " that the glossy, darkbrown curls, clustering over his head, gave the finish to its beauty:" and that, as regards the malformation of the foot, "it would be difficult to conceive a defect of this... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1883 - 624 pages
...them ? In the flattering portrait of him by Moore, it is stated that his eyes were light grey : that ' the glossy dark-brown curls, clustering over his head, gave the finish to its beauty :' and that, as regards the malformation of the foot, 'it would be difficult to conceive a defect of... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - Authors, English - 1884 - 356 pages
...his having his hair (to preserve it, he said) shaved over the temples ; while the glossy, dark brown curls, clustering over his head, gave the finish to...his teeth were white and regular, and his complexion colorless, as good an idea, perhaps, as it is the power of mere words to convey may be conceived of... | |
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His head was remarkably small*, — so much so as to be rather out of proportion with his face. The forehead, though a little too narrow, was high, and appeared more so from his having his hair (to preserve it, as he said) shaved over the temples; while... 
