Personal Appearance Of Coleridge

In his "Life of Sterling," Carlyle gives us a description of the appearance of the poet Coleridge: "The deep eyes of a light hazel were as full of sorrow as of inspiration; confused pain looked mildly from them, as in a kind of mild astonishment." Another says: "His forehead was prodigious- a great pieco of placid mar ble; and his fine eyes, in which all the activity of his mind seemed to concéntrate, moved under it with a sprightly ease, as if it were a pastime to them to carry all that thought." Yet another friend of his writes: "The upper part oL Coleridge's face was excessively fine. Hie eyes were large, light gray, and prominent, of liquid brilliancy, which some eyes of fine character may be observed to possess, as though the orb itself retreated to the innermost recesses of the brain."