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Title: New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine."
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875
Subjects: Physiognomy Phrenology
Publisher: New York : Fowler & Wells
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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as not exactly the right man in theright place on the stage. He should have been a statesman. Forrest has a massive body, a large brain, and a strong ratherthan a fine temperament, and excels in that which requireslusty lungs, powerful muscle, and strong passions. If he werenot made for his celebrated play, Metamora, the play wascertainly made for him. It was in this he achieved his great-est success, and in other similar characters, such as Sparta-cus, in the Gladiator, which is quite in his line. A castin our collection, taken from his head more than twenty yearsago, indicates a brain large at the base, particularly betweenthe ears. The head is also high in the crown and full in theintellect, but small in Veneration and Spirituality. He haslittle of the feeling of deference, humility, or devotion, butmuch pride, self-will, and ambition. In his sphere or line ofacting he may be said to be the most marked and conspicuouscharacter on the American stage. 524: THE PHYSIOGNOMY OF GLASSES.
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Pigs. 716 to 725. Homer, the most ancient and greatest ofthe Greek heroic poets, called the Eatherof Song, was born about 1000 b.c. ; theexact period of his death is not known. John Milton, the first of modern poetsin the department of sacred verse, the au-thor of *• Paradise Lost; born in London,Dec. 9, 1608; died Nov. 8, 1675. William Shakspeake, the greatest ofdramatists, and the most volummous, wasborn at Stratford-upon-Avon, England, inApril, 1.5(54; died April 23, 1616. Dante Alighieri, the most eminent ofItalian imaginative writers ; born in 1265,at Florence; died at Eavenna, in 1321. PuBLius ViRGiLius Maro, the greatestof the Latin epic poets, author of the ^neid; born near Mantua, October 15,70 B.C.; died September 22, 10 B.C. George Gordon, Lord Byron, one ofthe most imaginative of modern poets, was born in London, Jan. 22,1788 ; died at Mis-solonghi, Greece, April 19, 18M. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, an En-glish poetess, eminent for her tendernessand descriptive power; bo

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