 ... them all is the vast, void Night. The proud Grandee still lingers in his perfumed saloons, or reposes within damask curtains; Wretchedness cowers into truckle-beds, or shivers hungerstricken into its lair of straw : in obscure cellars, Rouge-etNoir...  Thomas Carlyle: His Life-his Books-his Theories - Page 66by Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1879 - 219 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1837 - 1322 pages
...; men are praying — on the other side of a brick partition, men are cursing; and around them all is the vast, void Night. The proud grandee still lingers...hunger-stricken, into its lair of straw. In obscure cellars, Roitge-tt-Noir languidly emits its voice of destiny to haggard, hungry villains ; while councillors... | |
 | 1848 - 780 pages
...nn the othersideof a brick partition, men vt eursine ; and around them all is the vast, void Kisht. The proud Grandee still lingers in his perfumed saloons, or reposes within dimask curUms; Wretchedness cowers into truckle-beds, or ihiters hanger- stricken into his lair of... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1837 - 322 pages
...born ; men are praying — on the other side of a brick partition men are cursing; and around them all is the vast, void Night. The proud grandee still lingers...obscure cellars, Rouge-et-Noir languidly emits its voice of destiny to haggard, hungry villains ; while councillors of state sit plotting, and playing... | |
 | 1837 - 660 pages
...born; men are praying — on the other side of a brick partition, men are cursing ; and around them all is the vast, void Night. The proud grandee still lingers...hunger-stricken, into its lair of straw. In obscure cellars, Rouec-et-Noir languidly emits its voice of destiny to haggard, hungry villains; while councillors of... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1838 - 338 pages
...are pray" ing, — on the other side of a brick partition, men are " cursing ; and around them all is the vast, void Night. " The proud Grandee still...into truckle-beds, or shivers hunger-stricken " into his lair of straw : in obscure cellars, Rouge-et-Noir " languidly emits its voice-of-destiny to haggard... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 324 pages
...men are pray" ing, — on the other side of a brick partition, men are " cursing; and around them all is the vast, void Night. " The proud Grandee still...into truckle-beds, or shivers hunger-stricken " into his lair of straw : in obscure cellars, Rouge-et-Noir " languidly emits its voice-of-destiny to haggard... | |
 | 1841 - 306 pages
...men are being born ; men are praying— on the other side of a brick paitition men are cursing ; and around ¡them is the vast void night. The proud grandee...within damask curtains ; wretchedness cowers into truckle beds, or shivers hunger-stricken into its lair of straw. In obscure cellars, Rouge-et-noir... | |
 | 1842 - 512 pages
...bora, men are praying ; on the other side of a brick partition, men are cursing ; and around them all is the vast, void Night. The proud Grandee still lingers in his perfumed saloon, or reposes within damask curtains ; wretchedness cowers into truckle-beds, or shivers hunger-stricken... | |
 | 1842 - 506 pages
...and around them all is the vast, void Night. The proud Grandee still lingers in his perfumed saloon, or reposes within damask curtains ; wretchedness cowers...into truckle-beds, or shivers hunger-stricken into his lair of straw : in obscure cellars, Roug^ et Noir languidly emits its voice-of-destiny to haggard,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1846 - 490 pages
...men are praying, — on the other side of a brick " partition, men are cursing ; and around them all is the vast, " void Night. The proud Grandee still...saloons, or reposes within damask curtains ; Wretchedness cow" ers into truckle-beds, or shivers hunger-stricken into its lair of " straw : in obscure cellars,... | |
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