39/137 of 'Memorials of a Tour on the Continent,' 1820] I should seem to have borne a little hard upon the personal appearance of the worthy Poissardes of Calais, let me take shelter under the authority of my lamented friend, the late Sir George Beaumont. He, a most accurate observer, used to say of them, that their features and countenances seemed to have conformed to those of the creatures they dealt in; at all events the resemblance was striking. [IV.] This occurred at Bruges in the year 1828. Mr.Coleridge, my daughter, and I, made a tour together in Flanders, upon the Rhine, and returned by Holland. |