Richter has an intellect vehement, rugged, irresistible, crushing in pieces the hardest problems ; piercing into the most hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant; an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling, brooding over... The Log Cabin; Or: The World Before You - Page 118by Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee - 1844 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
| Per Adam Siljeström - 1853 - 476 pages
...studies of a true poet's childhood ever given to the world." — Lowe's Edinburgh Magazine. "Richter has an intellect vehement, rugged, irresistible, crushing...literally unexampled, for it pours its treasures with a laviahness which knows no limit, hanging, like the sun, a jewel on every grass-blade, and sowing the... | |
| Friedrich Wilhelm C.K.F. freiherr von Humboldt - 1854 - 274 pages
...stndies of a true poet's childhood ever given to the world." — Lowe's Edinburgh Magazine. " Richter has an intellect vehement, rugged, irresistible, crushing...brooding over the abysses of being, wandering through infiuitnde, and summoning before us, in its dim religious light, shapes of brilliancy, solemnity, or... | |
| 1856 - 754 pages
...intellect Tehement, rugged, irresistible ; crushing in pieces the hardest problems ; piercing in • o the most hidden combinations of things, and grasping...sombre, splendid, or appalling ; brooding over the abvsses of Being ; wandering through Infinitude ; and summoning before us, in its dim religious light,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 pages
...harmonious or beautiful ; yet joined in living union, and of force and compass altogether extraordinary. He D 'p^ l iu its dim religious light, shapes of brilliancy, solemnity, or terror: a fancy of exuberance literally... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 504 pages
...harmonious or beautiful; yet joined in living union ; and of force and compass altogether extraordinary. He has an intellect vehement, rugged, irresistible ;...brooding over the abysses of Being; wandering through Inftnitude, and summoning before us, in its dim religious light, shapes of brilliancy, solemnity, or... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 428 pages
...living union ; and of force and compass altogether extraordinary. He has an VOL. VI. (Misc. vol. 1.) C intellect vehement, rugged, irresistible; crushing...exuberance literally unexampled ; for it pours its treasiores with a lavishness which knows no limit, hanging, like the sun, a jewel on every grass-blade,... | |
| Bayard Taylor - 1879 - 444 pages
...harmonious or beautiful, yet joined in living union, and of force and compass altogether extraordinary. He has an intellect vehement, rugged, irresistible ;...fancy of exuberance literally unexampled, for it pours forth its treasures with a lavishness which knows no limits, hanging, like the sun, a jewel on every... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 430 pages
...living union ; and of force and compass altogether extraordinary. He has an VOI* VI. (Misc. vol. 1.) 0 intellect vehement, rugged, irresistible; crushing...light, shapes of brilliancy, solemnity, or terror : a fanoy of exuberance literally unexampled ; for it pours its treasxires with a lavishness which knows... | |
| J. P. Vijn - 1982 - 306 pages
...Review of June 1827. so Of Jean Paul's poetic imagination, Carlyle writes in this essay: "He has ... an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling;...light, shapes of brilliancy, solemnity, or terror . . ."S1 And, with particular reference to Jean Paul's dreams: ". . . many times he exhibits an imagination... | |
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