 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 Log Cabin; Or: The World Before You - Page 118by Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee - 1844 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - 1851 - 430 pages
...exube__ „. — „_ ranee literally unexampled, pours its treasures with a lavishness which kno\._ no limit, hanging, like the sun, a jewel on every grass-blade, and sowing the earth ut large with orient pearls. But deeper than all these lies humour, the ruling quality of Richter—... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pages
...harmonious or beautiful ; yet joined in living union, and of force and compass altogether extraordinary. He has an intellect vehement, rugged, irresistible; crushing...deeper 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, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 568 pages
...things, and grasping the most distant: an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling; bropding over the abysses of Being ; wandering through Infinitude,...deeper 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... | |
 | 1852 - 318 pages
...terror: a fancy of exuberance literally unexampled, — for it pours its treasures with a lavislmess which knows no limit ; hanging, like the sun, a jewel on every grass-blade ; and sowing the earth at largo with orient pearl. But deeper than all these bes Humour, the ruling quality with Richter ; as... | |
 | Francis William Newman - 1853 - 170 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...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... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm C.K.F. freiherr von Humboldt - 1854 - 274 pages
...pours its treasures with a lavishness which knows no limit, hanging, bike the sun, a anging, s-blade, jewel on every grass-blade, and sowing the earth at large with orient pearls. But deeper than all these lies numour, the ruling quality of Eichter — as it were the central... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...solemnity, or terror: a fancy of exuberance literally unexampled,— for it pours its treasures with • lavishness which knows no limit ; hanging, like the...deeper than all these lies Humour, the ruling quality with Richter ; as it were the central ore that pervades and vivifies his whole being. He is a humourist... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 604 pages
...appalling; brooding over the abysses of Being ; wandering through Infinitude, and summoning before us, iu its dim religious light, shapes of brilliancy, solemnity,...deeper 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 - 1859 - 620 pages
...harmonious or beautiful ; yet joined in living union, and of force and compass altogether extraordinary. He has an intellect vehement, rugged, irresistible ;...deeper 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 - 1860 - 504 pages
...vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling; brooding over the abysses of Being; wandering through Inftnitude, and summoning before us, in its dim religious light,...deeper 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... | |
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