All at once the trouble would pass away, and his countenance bask in its habitual calm, like a cloudless summer sky.

His indignation flamed out vehemently when he heard of a base action.

'I could kick such a man across England with my naked foot,' I heard him exclaim on such an occasion.

The more impassioned part of his nature connected itself especially with his political feelings.

He regarded his own intellect as one which united some of the faculties which belong to the statesman with those which belong to the poet; and public affairs interested him not less deeply than poetry.