 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
 | James Anthony Froude - 1849 - 280 pages
...splendid, best interests of the country." — TaiPs or appalling, brooding- over the abysses | Magazine. of being, wandering through infinitude, and summoning...literally unexampled, for it pours its treasures with a lavislmess which knows no limit, hanging, like the sun, a jewel on every grass-blade, Apart from the... | |
 | Wilhelm Freiherr von Humboldt - 1849 - 304 pages
...the most distant ; an i sombre, splendid, or ap over the abysses of nation vague, lling, brooding ng, wandering through infinitude, and summoning before...literally unexampled, for it pours its treasures with a lavish ness which knows no limit, hanging, like the tun, a jewel on every grass-blade, and sowing the... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - 1850 - 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... | |
 | Horace Bushnell - 1850 - 370 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 270 pages
...hidden combinations of tilings, 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, j and sowing the earth at large with orient pearls. But deeper than all these lies -humour, the ruling... | |
 | Louis Raymond Véricour - 1850 - 556 pages
...ruling quality or appalling, brooding' over the abysses j of RICHTER — as it were the central fire of being, wandering through infinitude, and summoning...literally unexampled, for it pours its treasures with a lavishnese which knows no limit, hanging, like the sun, a jewel on every grass-blade, and sowing the... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin Smith - 1851 - 456 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 liant fantasy, turned to a high... | |
 | Francis William Newman - 1851 - 378 pages
...; an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling, brooding over the abysses otbeing.wandenng through infinitude, and summoning before us, in its...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... | |
 | Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - 1851 - 430 pages
...hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant ; an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling, brooding over the abysses of being,...shapes of brilliancy, solemnity, or terror; a fancy of exube__ „. — „_ ranee literally unexampled, pours its treasures with a lavishness which kno\._... | |
 | John Chapman - 1851 - 490 pages
...imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling, brooding over the abysses of being, wander! ngthrouir h infinitude, and summoning before us, in its dim religious...literally unexampled, for it pours its Treasures with a lavislmess which knows no limit, hanging, like the -mi, a jewel on every gnus-blade, and sowing the... | |
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