Past and present at the English lakes . SIGN OF THE NAGS HEAD 225 Those who stop at the Nags Head will be gladto call up to mind so interesting an association withthe place as the visit of young Keats with hisfellow-traveller Brown, and if they desire a pictureof Keats as he appeared then, twenty-three yearsold, they cannot do better than remember how hewas described when he appeared the year before atHazlitts lecture. His eyes, says the narrator, were large and blue, his hair auburn. He woreit divided down the centre, and it fell in rich masseson each side of his face. His mouth was full, and
Past and present at the English lakes . SIGN OF THE NAGS HEAD 225 Those who stop at the Nags Head will be gladto call up to mind so interesting an association withthe place as the visit of young Keats with hisfellow-traveller Brown, and if they desire a pictureof Keats as he appeared then, twenty-three yearsold, they cannot do better than remember how hewas described when he appeared the year before atHazlitts lecture. His eyes, says the narrator, were large and blue, his hair auburn. He woreit divided down the centre, and it fell in rich masseson each side of his face. His mouth was full, andless intellectual than his other features. Hiscountenance lives in my mind as one of singularbeauty and brightness. It had the expression, asif he had been looking on some glorious shape of his face had not the squareness of amans, but was more like some womans face Ihave seen. It was so wide over the forehead, andso small at the chin. He seemed in perfect health, and with life offer-ing all things that were precious to him.
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