ows this
statement emphasizes the fact that a horse is not intended for
carrying burdens. From the germinal impression of a description, all
the details grow; to this primary impression they all contribute. In
the case of buildings, or other things material, this impression is
generally one of form, sometimes of the height of the object; if
striking, it may be color. The strongest impression of persons is a
quality of character which shows itself either in the face or in the
pose of a man. An example of each may be found in the following
paragraphs from "David Copperfield:"--

"At length we stopped before a very old house bulging out
over the road; a house with long, low lattice-windows
bulging out still farther, and beams with carved heads on
the ends bulging out too, so that I fancied the whole house
was leaning forward, trying to see who was passing on the
narrow pavement below. It was quite spotless in its
cleanliness. The old-fashioned brass knocker on the
low-arched door, ornamented with carved garlands of fruits
and flowers, twinkled like a star; the two stone steps
descending to the door were as white as if they had been
covered with fair linen; and all the angles and corners, and
carvings and mouldings, and quaint little panes of glass,
and quainter little windows, though as old as the hills,
were as pure as any snow that ever fell upon the hills.

"When the pony-chaise stopped at the door, and my eyes were
intent upon the house, I saw a cadaverous face appear at a
small window on the ground floor (in a little round tower
that formed one side of the house), and quickly disappear.
The low arched door then opened, and the face came out. It
was quite as cadaverous as it had looked in the window,
though in the grain of it there was that tinge of red which
is sometimes to be observed in the skins of red-haired
people. It belonged to a red-haired person--a youth of
fifteen, as I take it now, but looking much older whose hair
was cropped as close as the closest stubble; who had hardly
any eyebrows, and no eyelashes, and eyes of a red-brown; so
unsheltered and unshaded that I remember wondering how he
went to sleep. He was high-shouldered and bony; dressed in
decent black, with a white wisp of a neck cloth; buttoned up
to the throat; and had a long, lank, skeleton han