 | 1827 - 330 pages
...somehow as with the hammer of Vulcan, with three strokes that might have helped to forge an .ZEgis. The treasures of his mind are of a similar description...elements, and winding in labyrinthic mazes. Among Richter's gifts, perhaps the first that strikes us as truly great is his Imagination ; for he loves... | |
 | 1827 - 324 pages
...somehow as with the hammer of Vulcan, with three strokes that might have helped to forge an JEgis. The treasures of his mind are of a similar description...elements, and winding in labyrinthic mazes. Among Richter's gifts, perhaps the first that strikes us as truly great is his Imagination ; for he loves... | |
 | 1830 - 570 pages
...somehow as with the hammer of Vulcan, with three strokes that might have helped to forge an jEgis. The treasures of his mind are of a similar description...elements, and winding in labyrinthic mazes. 'Among Richter's gifts,' continues this critic, ' the first that strikes us as truly great is his Imagination;... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 862 pages
...somehow as with the hammer of Vulcan, with three strokes that might have helped to forge an jKgis. The treasures of his mind are of a similar description...round him in huge unwieldy heaps. His very language isTitanian; deep, strong, tumultuous; shining with a thousand hues, fused from a thousand elements,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1841 - 810 pages
...somehow as with the hammer of Vulcan, with three strokes that might have helped to forge an iEgis. The treasures of his mind are of a similar description...elements, and winding in labyrinthic mazes. Among Richter's gifts, perhaps the first that strikes us as truly great is his Imagination; for he loves... | |
 | 1847 - 876 pages
...but in Carlyle. " the proper current" never " sinks out of sight amid the boundless uproar." Again: "His very language is Titanian — deep, strong, tumultuous,...thousand elements, and winding in labyrinthic mazes." In short, if it is desirable that a man be eloquent, lhat he talk much, and address himself to his... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pages
...somehow as with the hammer of Vulcan, with three strokes that might have helped to forge an ^Egis. The treasures of his mind are of a similar description...language is Titanian; deep, strong, tumultuous ; shining wiih a thousand hues, fused from a thousand elements, and winding in labyrinthic mazes. "Among Richter's... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 pages
...somehow as with the hammer of Vulcan, with three strokes that might have helped to forge an -t!gis. of Commercial Restrictions : "These, O ye quacks,...Soul-purchased harvests on the indigent moor! Thus the winged wiih a thousand hues, fused from a thousand elements, and winding in labyrinthic mazes. "Among Richter's... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 620 pages
...round him in huge unwieldy heaps. His very language is Titanian; deep, strong, tumultuous; shining wiih a thousand hues, fused from a thousand elements, and winding in labyrinthic mnzcs. " Among Richter's gifts,"' continues this critic, " the first that strikes us as truly great... | |
 | 1863 - 774 pages
...three strikes that might have helped to forge an jEf:is. The treasures of his mind are of a similir description with the mind itself ; his knowledge is...very language is Titanian ; deep, strong, tumultuous ; shiuing with a thousand hues, fused from a thousand elements, and winding in labyrinthic masses.'... | |
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The treasures of his mind are of a similar description with the mind itself; his knowledge is gathered from all the kingdoms of Art, and Science, and Nature, and lies round him in huge unwieldy heaps. His very language is Titanian ; deep, strong, tumultuous... 
