"Her brow was fair"

The author of the passage quoted by J.M.B. is Barry Cornwall. It occurs in one of the delicious little "Miscellaneous Poems" attached to the volume entitled *Dramatic Scenes*. The quotation is not quite accurate, the last two words of the first line, "and look'd," being carried into the second, and thus destroying the metre of both. The Dr. Armstrong alluded to by J.M.B. is, I suppose, a modern celebrity of whom I must plead guilty of being ignorant. The lines could, of course, only occur in the writings of the Dr. Armstrong who wrote *The Art of Preserving Health*, and who was the friend of t…