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 - German literature - 1838 - 476 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 - 1840 - 862 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... | |
| Literature - 1841 - 500 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 humourist... | |
| Charles Christian Hennell - Bible - 1841 - 568 pages
...literally unexampled, for it pours its treasures with a lavisnness which knows no limit, hanging, lite the sun, a jewel on every grass-blade, and sowing the earth at large with orient pearls. But deeper than all these lies humour, the ruling quality of Riehter — as it were the central... | |
| Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee - American fiction - 1844 - 166 pages
...hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant; an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling; brooding over the abysses of Being;...deeper than all these lies Humour, the ruling quality of RICHTER; as it were the central fire that pervades and vivifies his whole being. He is a humorist... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 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... | |
| Johann Gottlieb Fichte, William Smith - Learning and scholarship - 1845 - 258 pages
...hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant; an imaginaI tion vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling; brooding over the abysses of Being;...deeper than all these lies Humour, the ruling quality of RICHTER; as it were the central fire that pervades and vivifies his whole being. He is a humorist... | |
| Eliza Buckminster Lee - Authors, German - 1845 - 278 pages
...and grasping the most distant; an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling, brooding orer the abysses of being, wandering through infinitude,...grass-blade, and sowing the earth at large with orient pearls. But deeper than all these lies humour, the ruling quality of RICHTEB — as it were the central... | |
| James Martineau - Unitarian Universalist churches - 1845 - 214 pages
...appalling, brooding over the abysses of being,wandermg through infinitude, and summoning before us, m its dim religious light, shapes of brilliancy, solemnity,...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—... | |
| Edgar Quinet - Ultramontanism - 1845 - 224 pages
...and grasping the most distant; an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling; brooding overthe abysses of Being; wandering through infinitude, and...terror; a fancy of exuberance literally unexampled; tor it pours its treasures with a lavishness which knows no limit, hanging, like the sun, a jewel on... | |
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