New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . Fisr. NOTED NOSES 221. Look now at tlie beautiful noses of tlie poets. Tasso, Dante, Petrarch, have noses like the gods of immortal verse. Our own bards arein no way the portraitsof Chaucer, Shak^speare, Milton,,Dryden, Pope, andso down to thepresent Laureate,Tennyson. See also Moliere, Vol-taire, Erasmus, Pas-cal, and Schiller—all men of genius,but how varied!But there is not agreater variety incharacter than inthat feature
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . Fisr. NOTED NOSES 221. Look now at tlie beautiful noses of tlie poets. Tasso, Dante, Petrarch, have noses like the gods of immortal verse. Our own bards arein no way the portraitsof Chaucer, Shak^speare, Milton,,Dryden, Pope, andso down to thepresent Laureate,Tennyson. See also Moliere, Vol-taire, Erasmus, Pas-cal, and Schiller—all men of genius,but how varied!But there is not agreater variety incharacter than inthat feature wdiich the ancients called honestamentum faciei; and which is all that, and something more. Could Schillers bust change noses with Voltaires ? Try the ex-periment, and if it proves satisfactory I will abandon the whole tlieory, and call science a cheat and nature an impostor, and Lavater a dupe and a donkey. Show me a thief w^ith the nose of Algernon Sydney; show me an empty fop, if there be any yet extant, with the nose of Lord Ba-con ; or some soft poltroon with the profile of Philip the Bold, or Elliott, the hero of Gibraltar; find me, in a group of costermongers an
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