“He was a man of grave deportment and very comely person: of a fair complexion, with good features and flaxen haire.”
W. C. Hazlitt’s
Life of Sir
John Suckling.
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“In person he was of a middle size, though but slightly made, with a winning and graceful carriage, and noble features.”
JONATHAN SWIFT
1667-1745
Scott’s Life
of Swift.
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“Swift was in person tall, strong, and well made, of a dark complexion, but with blue eyes, black and bushy eyebrows, nose somewhat aquiline, and features which remarkably expressed the stern, haughty, and dauntless turn of his mind. He was never known to laugh, and his smiles are happily characterised by the well-known lines of Shakespeare. Indeed the whole description of Cassius might be applied to Swift:
‘He reads much;
He is a great observer and he looks