Shakespeare's Portraits Phrenologically Consideredprivate circulation, 1875 - 8 Seiten |
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Seite 6 - Would he were fatter! but I fear him not: Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men; he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music...
Seite 6 - Let me have men about me that are fat ; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights. Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; He thinks too much : such men are dangerous.
Seite 4 - This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; Wherein the Grauer had a strife With Nature, to out-doo the life : O, could he but haue drawne his wit As well in brasse, as he hath hit His face ; the Print would then surpasse All, that was euer writ in brasse. But, since he cannot, Reader, looke Not on his Picture, but his Booke.
Seite 7 - It is certainly the impress from one who was gifted with great sensibility, great range of perceptive power, a ready memory, great facility of expression, varied power of enjoyment, and great depth of feeling.
Seite 1 - We seldom find that a large anterior lobe and narrow base of the brain are combined with large lungs and a large abdomen ; and we as rarely see that a large base and small anterior lobe are combined with small lungs and a small abdomen.
Seite 8 - D simile in the much-contested quotation, as altered by Mr. Collier's " old corrector ; " — " His nose was as sharp as a pen on a table of green frieze." The face is a sharp oval, that of the bust is a blunt one ; the chin is narrow and pointed, that of the bust rounded or rather square, and full of force ; the cheeks are thin and drawn in, those of the bust full, fat, and almost coarse. Exception has also been taken to the age of the person, expressed in this cast, some asserting that it is too...
Seite 4 - It may be observed here that until within the last few years artists were less exact and minute in the delineation of the head than the face...
Seite 5 - It is the opposite in this respect to the cast from the face. There is one feature in the portrait which harmonises with Milton's praise, and Jonson's worship, and Spenser's admiration, — his large benevolence, veneration and ideality, and his small destructiveness and acquisitiveness, leading to his control over his feelings and generous sympathy with others, manifested by his quiet manner and gentle nature.
Seite 1 - ... Some of the best authenticated portraits are the productions of inferior artists ; others are disputed ; while several are frauds and impositions. It is therefore desirable to ascertain, as far as practicable, which portrait approximates the nearest to the " counterpart presentment" of the poet ; and the light of modern science will enable us to arrive at a nearer point of truth and exactness than has hitherto been possible. . It is only within the present century that the discovery has been...
Seite 8 - ... worn ; the beard, a small tuft on the chin now called an " imperial." The hairs left sticking in the plaster are a light reddish-brown, or auburn, and correspond with many of the portraits, and with the colours of the Stratford bust. Professor Owen says that John Bell, the sculptor, is of opinion, that the Stratford bust was cut from a mask, but by a clumsy sculptor, who modified his work. The mask has a short upper lip, the bust a very long one ; but this discrepancy is accounted for on the...