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Show Nature Prodigal in Gifts to the Great The great man has usually looked the part. Lowell said of Emerson that there "was a majesty about him beyond be-yond all the men I have ever known." Washington Impressed those about him as being no ordinary man, and Dr. James Thatcher said "the strength and proportion of his Joints and muscles mus-cles appeared to be commensurate with the pre-eminent powers of his mind." Goethe was likened In his youth to an Apollo, and the physician phy-sician Hufeland declared that never had he "met with a man in whom bodily and mental organization were so perfect." Tennyson was "one of the finest looking men in the world." Wordsworth was, according to the artist art-ist Hayden, "of very fine heroic proportions." pro-portions." Southey looked an ideal poet, Byron was as beautiful as his verse and was likened to "(he god of the Vatican, the Apollo Eelvidere." Leonardo da Vinci had a figure of beautiful proportions and a nuble and engagiug presence. Walter Scott was eminently handsome, "much above the usual standard" and "cast in the mold of young Hercules." with a "fresh and brilliant complexion and a countenance of great dignity." Scientific Monthly. |