 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
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 598 pages
...hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant: an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling; brooding over the abysses of Being ;...wandering through Infinitude, and summoning before us, iu its dim religious light, shapes of brilliancy, solemnity, or terror: a fancy of exuberance literally... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1859 - 620 pages
...hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant: an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling; brooding over the abysses of Being;...than all these lies Humour, the ruling quality with Richter; as it were the central fire that pervades and vivifies his whole being. He is a humorist from... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 500 pages
...vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling; brooding over the abysses of Being; wandering through Inftnitude, and summoning before us, in its dim religious light,...than all these lies Humour, the ruling quality with Richter ; as it were the central fire that pervades and vivifies his whole being. He is a humorist... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 428 pages
...hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant : an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling; brooding over the abysses of Being ;...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 - 452 pages
...hidden combinations of things and grasping the most distant : an imagination vague, sombre, splendid or appalling, — -brooding over the abysses of Being,...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... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1882 - 558 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 pearl. 3. Of writings which, though with many reservations, we have praised so much, our hesitating readers... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1884 - 516 pages
...hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant : an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling ; brooding over the abysses of Being;...with orient pearl. But deeper than all these lies Humor, the ruling quality with Richter ; as it were the central fire that pervades and vivifies his... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 430 pages
...hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant : an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling; brooding over the abysses of Being ;...light, shapes of brilliancy, solemnity, or terror : a fanoy of exuberance literally unexampled ; for it pours its treasxires with a lavishness which knows... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1894 - 300 pages
...hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant : an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling ; brooding over the abysses of Being...than all these lies Humour, the ruling quality with Richter ; as it were the central fire that pervades and vivifies his whole being. He is a humorist... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 660 pages
...hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant : an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling ; brooding over the abysses of Being;...with orient pearl. But deeper than all these lies Humor, the ruling quality with Richter ; as it were the central fire that pervades and vivifies his... | |
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