[Daniel Webster by Henry Cabot Lodge]@TWC D-Link bookDaniel Webster CHAPTER I 41/51
In Fryeburg it was his eyes which people seem to have remembered best.
He was still very thin in face and figure, and he tells us himself that he was known in the village as "All-eyes;" and one of the boys, a friend of later years, refers to Mr. Webster's "full, steady, large, and searching eyes." There never was a time in his life when those who saw him did not afterwards speak of his looks, generally either of the wonderful eyes or the imposing presence. There was a circulating library in Fryeburg, and this he read through in his usual rapacious and retentive fashion.
Here, too, he was called on for a Fourth of July oration.
This speech, which has been recently printed, dwells much on the Constitution and the need of adhering to it in its entirety.
There is a distinct improvement in his style in the direction of simplicity, but there is no marked advance in thought or power of expression over the Hanover oration.
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