He 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... The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 1871827Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 pages
...most distant; an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling, brooding over the abysses of bemg, wandering through infinitude, and summoning before...hanging, like the sun, a jewel on every grass-blade, Chapman, Brothers, 121, Newgate-street. THE CATHOLIC SERIES—(continued.) and sowing the earth at... | |
 | William Maccall - 1847 - 392 pages
...hidden combinations 01 things, find grimping the most distant; an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling, brooding over the abysses of being,...through infinitude, and summoning before us, in its dim rrli-noiw light, shapes of brilliancy, solemnity, or terror; a fancy of exuberance literally unexampled,... | |
 | William Smith - 1848 - 218 pages
...hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant; an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling, brooding over the abysses of being,...grass-blade, and sowing the earth at large with orient pearls. But deeper than all these lies humour, the ruling quality of RICHTER—as it were the central... | |
 | Antonio Carlo Napoleone Gallenga - 1848
...hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant; an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling, brooding over the abysses of being,...grass-blade. and sowing the earth at large with orient pearls. But deeper than all these lies humour, the ruling quality of RICHTER— as it were the central... | |
 | Antonio Carlo Napoleone Gallenga - 1848 - 518 pages
...hidden combinations or things, and grasping the most distant; an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling, brooding over the abysses of being,...hanging, like the sun, a jewel on every grass-blade. John Chapman, 121, Newyaie-street. 21 THE CATHOLIC SERIES — (continued.) and sowing the earth at... | |
 | Johann Gottlieb Fichte - 1848 - 232 pages
...hidden combinations of things, and graspingthe most distant; an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling, brooding over the abysses of being,...literally unexampled, for it pours its treasures with a lavisnness which knows no limit, hanging, like the sun, a jewel on every grass-blade, and sowing the... | |
 | Antonio Carlo Napoleone Gallenga - 1848 - 544 pages
...hidden combinations or things, and grasping the most distant; an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling, brooding over the abysses of being,...literally unexampled, for it pours its treasures with a lavisbness which knows no limit, hanging, like the sun, a jewel on every grass-blade, and sowing the... | |
 | Johann Gottlieb Fichte - 1849 - 272 pages
...hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant; an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling, brooding over the abysses of being,...grass-blade, and sowing the earth at large with orient pearls. But deeper than all these lies humour, the ruling quality of KICHTER—as it were the central... | |
 | Frederick Joseph Foxton - 1849 - 284 pages
...hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant; an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling, brooding over the abysses of being,...grass-blade, and sowing the earth at large with orient pearls. But deeper than all these lies humour, the ruling quality of Richter— as it were the central... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1849 - 294 pages
...bidden combinations ox things* and grasping the most distant; an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling, brooding over the abysses of being,...literally unexampled, for it . pours its treasures with a lavish ness which knows no limit, hanging, like the sun, a jewel on every grass-blade. and sowing the... | |
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