22/29 Set descriptions are good for puppets. Living men and women are too various in the mixture fashioning them--even the "external presentment"-- to be livingly rendered in a formal sketch. I may tell you his eyes are pale blue, his features regular, his hair silky, brownish, his legs long, his head rather stooping (only the head), his mouth commonly closed; these are the facts, and you have seen much the same in a nursery doll. Such literary craft is of the nursery. |