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His long white hair and full white beard and mustache, which entirely shaded his lips, and his heavy

white eyebrows, characteristic of a man of magnetism, set off his massive face and gave him a look of

He is William Duckett. In an hour Mr.

White. He is an architect and the son of Richard Grant White. Then Mr.

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:417–421;.

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:417–421;.

Both men look older than they are, for the massive head of on all gray, and the other all white.

his time with some English friends, the family of the late Alexander Gilchrist, the biographer of William

The biography of William Blake was completed by his wife, who wrote a preface, which is said to be the

Shipley, William M. Singerly and L. Clark Davis.

The half light from the window fell upon his brown face and long white beard, and flowing white hair,

the sporting event to sit in admiration of a clump of green trees that outlined themselves against a white

"How the white background sets off the many shades of the green leaves!"

, and this the poet has always been, that the "Whit" may either be the Saxon "wit" or "wisdom" or "white

" in the sense of his being a "white" man, but that the essence of the whole name lies in the last syllable

William H. Garrison . Our transcription is based on a digital image of an original issue.

spot near the Market Street Ferry, where he can see the boats coming in and enjoy the sight of the white

Francis Howard Williams of Germantown wrote me the other day something that pleased me very much.

Long white hair, long white beard and mustache, a florid face, with blue eyes alive with fire, a gigantic

His old white hat lies on a chair.

How it made my heart double-beat to see my piece on the pretty white paper, in nice type.

It was far more primitive and ancient then my Camden friend William Kurtz's place up on Federal street

Long white hair, open shirt, broad white hat lying around. Genial manner. "My friend."

Moffit's caravansary, in Bulfinch Place, where William Dean Howells, with his family, and other literary

old rouge, Whitman, I'd give the planet Jupiter, if I owned it, in exchange for your physique, your white

The half light from the window fell upon his long, white hair and his grizzled white beard and brown,

himself many details of the sick room—the ashen face against the pillow, the wasted hand, the long white

The cold, white mantel is massed with photographs. Faces of friends, evidently.

The woodwork is sombre white, and the paint is cracked badly in many places and is peeling off.

It was marked with a white tidy. Then more heaps of papers.

White curtains were drawn part way down.

.— White with the snows and storms of winter, bent, bowed, and scarred with fierce tempests, but staunch

firm mouth expressing much sweetness and much sorrow, his color still healthy red, his hair and beard white

His collar was open, but snowy in whiteness, and one could see at a glance that he felt that the gift

I found a handsome house, with white marble steps, the outer door invitingly open; a pretty parlor, with

homeless dogs follow him gratefully and little children gather affectionately around him—this aged, white-maned

William Wesselhoeft. The result of two months' generous work by Mr.

The window sills, bordered with white, were mounted with old-fashioned green blinds."

A white curtain was hung across the lower part of the widow inside, and, in summer, flowers were to be

He leaned as he walked upon the arm of his young friend, William Duckett, of Camden.

Your William Blackwood & sons, of Edinburgh, produce some splendidly printed works.

He realized one's ideal of the Old Man of the Seat—long, white beard, "breaking in venerable flood upon

his breast," unkempt locks as white as snow tumbling over ear and temple, and half-dimmed, mild eyes

The writers in their white aprons flitted about on the edge of the listening group like semi-ghosts.

It's so sort of cold, so white. I don't like it." Walt nodded his head slowly.

Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF WALT WHITMAN By William Roscoe Thayer

impressed you most was his face, with its fresh, pink skin, as of a child, and the flowing beard, white

His hair and beard are long and very white.

I shall long remember him with his white fleece, pink complexion, and friendliness.

So Walt's loafing around the White House was not wholly unremunerated.

The famous white hat sat on the top of his thick snowy hair, and the flickering gaslights played in unromantic

From time to time sanguinary collisions between blacks and whites occur, and the diminishing number of

the sons of Ham are seriously multiplying in the South, where in some districts they quite swamp the white

Nor have we anywhere in England a Town Hall nearly as magnificent as the huge pile of white marble, reared

Girard College is another magnificent building of white marble, in the Corinthian style, imitating the

Francis Howard Williams, of this city, in words of eloquence, treated "The Past and Present."

Throughout the speech-making Poet Whitman reclined in his easy chair sniffing at a big white rose, and

A face somewhat lightened by a mild gray eye, but made forbidding, with a suit of pure white hair which

wanders as a familiar figure through the streets of Camden, where he is respected, wearing a gray or white

Brooklyn there must be a Plymouth Church, and a distinguished though somewhat doubtful clergyman, and a white-souled

As he passed the window a white-haired, pleasant-faced old gentleman looked out of it; and the face looked

It was as white as snow, and gave the poet the appearance of one of the old patriarchs in the Bible.

We are glad to find the old poet in good health, and although his hair is white his heart seems to be

looked a moment at the blaze of the great wood fire, ran his forefinger and left through the heavy white

Long white hair, a long white beard and moustache, a florid face with spirited blue eyes, a gigantic

On a distant sofa lay the broad-brimmed white hat which he has worn for nearly a quarter of a century

At the curbstone is a block of white marble with the initials 'W.

His body was thinner than I had ever seen it, but the fine head crowned with its white hair was unaltered

and beloved among actors; for many of the famous figures of the American stage have known it, and William

William T.

Passing under some arc-lights in the street, on our way back from the theatre, he remarked: "This white

A most scathing letter from William Douglas O'Connor was published, consigning Mr.

Probably the most intimate and devoted of Whitman's younger friends in Boston was William Sloane Kennedy

at the door of our room—which served both as dining and sitting room—was answered by my husband, William

The landlord was consulted, the room could be rented, and on the return of Walt and William from the

It was soon after that Whitman's old friend, William Swanton, who was war correspondent for one of the

Even so remote and unheard-of a subject as the white beard of Secretary Welles—then Secretary of the

William Henry Channing was living. They had often asked us to bring Whitman, and he and Mr.

. * * * I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world, A white-haired shadow, roaming

Stevens street, near Fifth) is a still, Philadelphia-looking quarter, of long rows of brick houses with white

marble door-steps and white wooden shutters, in one of which, at a street corner, Whitman has taken

The poet now dresses in gray clothes, matching well with his hair and beard, and wears a white scarf

Who are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human, With your wholly-white and turban'd turbaned head

several of the other pilots mentioned there—John Cole, pilot of the Union, who was a pilot still; George White

, Luther Smith, and Bill White, who died suddenly and alone at his post, in the very chair in which I

Walt Whitman is a man well advanced in years and his snow-white hair and the long white beard which grows

linen with a great wide collar edged with white lace—the shirt buttoned about midway down his breast

The eyebrows are thick and shaggy with strong white hair, very highly arched and standing a long way

The full lips are partly hidden by the thick, white moustache.

Near the bed, under the blinded-up window, is the washstand—a plain wooden one, with a white wash-jug

Your William Black & Sons, of Edinburgh, produce some splendidly printed works.

The white beard—so singularly clear and pure and silken in aspect and texture makes nobly venerable the

The arched eyebrows are also white, like bows of driven snow.

Is the latter's little book of 1867 worth nothing, or is it of no importance that William D.

saturnine-looking business man named Houston—at least to me he seemed what I say—was in the handsome white

and soft, almost roseate-hued face, with the tired but still affectionate eyes, all framed in the white

among a very few, and was only beginning to make its way into England, chiefly owing to the help of William

heavy-lidded firm blue eyes, which had a steadfast and dreamy regard; a short thick grey beard almost white

He had on a short black tailor jacket—no vest, wide turn-over collar, white shirt, broad sailor black

Reclining in his easy chair, arrayed in loose-fitting trousers of some plain gray goods and a spotless white

The poet's sleeves were rolled above the elbows, exposing a pair of arms white as a woman's, but symmetrical

It illuminated a large and well rounded head sprinkled with snow white hair; eyebrows high and arching

mustache that conceals the upper lip is silvery and the beard that falls to his broad breast has the white

back with feelings of reverence and respect for the destiny which threw him in contact with the good white-haired

His hair and beard, both of which were white as the driven snow and of great length, blended beautifully

His hair is long and like his whiskers is of snowy whiteness.

His white shirt was cut in true sailor style, opening low down upon his breast, and with the collar rolled

The whole dress with the white flowing hair and whiskers were suggestive of a nature that one is afterwards

His beard and hair were snow-white, his complexion a fine colour, and unwrinkled.

He was dressed always in a complete suit of grey clothes with a large and spotless white linen collar

, his flowing white beard filling in the gap at his strong sunburnt throat.

twinkle of amusement in his blue eyes, their blueness intensified by their overhanging, bushy, snow-white

year of which I write he stayed at Timber Creek, and dilated on these pleasures:— "The birds at the White

Clemens (Mark Twain), Charles Dudley Warner, John Boyle O'Reilly, William J.

Elkins, Charles Emory Smith, Talcott Williams, of Philadelphia; William D.

Stuart, William W. Justice, John Harker, of Exina, Canada, and R. M. Buck, M. D., and Dr.

Tipping back in his chair in an easy manner, while he pushed his white locks back from his brow, the

Though venerable-looking from his white hair and beard, his paralysis and the extra lameness that has

Moncure Conway and William M.

Lewes, Vernon and Godfrey Lushington, Dante G. and William M. Rossetti, W. B. Scott, C. W.

He wears a great cape overcoat of soft gray cloth, which falls below the knees, and a broad-brimmed white

felt hat almost as wide as the strong shoulders, over w hich a wild growth of white hair and beard blown

table Henry Clapp, Walt Whitman, Fitz James O'Brien, Ned Wilkins, George Arnold, Sheppard, Gardette, William

William Winter was its literary critic.

William Winter came from the Cambridge (Mass.) Chronicle in 1859.

Our transcription is based on William Shepard, ed., Pen Pictures of Modern Authors (New York: G. P.

One White House story comes to me of his leaving Lincoln in wrath, "slamming the doors behind him" because

I look where he lies, white-faced and still in the coffin, and draw near.

Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.

Our Pete hit in a cavalry skirmish and to die; the boy shot in the abdomen, "face as white as a lily;

Harned, Francis Howard Williams, Horace L. Traubel, Harrison S. Morris, Talcott Williams, John H.

Mitchell, William Reeder, Daniel Gongaker, Geoffrey Buckwalter, William Ingram, Carl Edelheim, G.W.

Williams ( F.

Williams .— Mr.

—Talcott Williams—Williams! Whitman .— Get up, Talcott—show yourself!

public reception room, a large, tall, strongly-built man, with a tanned and scarlet face, plenteous white

He is about as handsome an old man as I have seen, his white locks parting over a serene and most noble

might have been olive-colored when put on in the silurian age, and the window sills, bordered with white

The poet's hair and whiskers were fleecy, shining, white and long, his clothing was of the simplest type—a

transparent haze of the warm after- afternoon noon sun; The aspiring lilac bushes with profuse purple or white

Indeed, his face seems almost ruddy in contrast with the snowy whiteness of his hair and beard.

Williams— It has become almost fashion to say that Walt Whitman lacks form, and that his method of expressing

afternoon, just come in from his drive—a rather infirm but fine-looking old man, with a long, venerable white