| Peter Bayne - English literature - 1879 - 464 pages
...under that hideous coverlet of vapours and putrefactions and unimaginable gases, what a fermenting- vat lies simmering and hid ! The joyful and the sorrowful...them all is the vast, void night. The proud grandee still lingers in his perfumed saloons, or reposes within damask curtains ; wretchedness cowers into... | |
| Peter Bayne - English literature - 1879 - 470 pages
...unimaginable gases, what a fermenting- vat lies simmering and hid ! The joyful and the sorrowful arc there ; men are dying there, men are being born :...them all is the vast, void night. The proud grandee still lingers in his perfumed saloons, or reposes within damask curtains ; wretchedness cowers into... | |
| Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1879 - 226 pages
...of vapors and putrefactions and unimaginable gases, what a Fermenting-vat lies simmering and hid I The joyful and the sorrowful are there ; men are dying...other side of a brick partition, men are cursing ; and all around them is the vast, void Night. "The proud Grandee still lingers in his perfumed saloons,... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...and hid ! The joyful and the sorrowful arc there ; men are dying there, men are being born ; men nre praying, — on the other side of a brick partition,...them all is the vast, void Night. The proud Grandee still lingers in his perfumed saloons, or reposes within duinask curtains ; Wretchedness cowers into... | |
| PETER BAYNE, M.A., LL.D - 1879 - 564 pages
...under that hideous coverlet of vapors and putrefactions and unimaginable gases, what a fcrmentiug-vat lies simmering and hid! The joyful and the sorrowful...there; men are dying there, men are being born: men are praying—on the other side of a brick partition, men are cursing; and around them all is the vast,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - English literature - 1884 - 494 pages
...under that hideous coverlet of vapors, and putrefactions, and unimaginable gases, what a Fermenting-vat lies simmering and hid ! The joyful and the sorrowful...them all is the vast, void Night. The proud Grandee still lingers in his perfumed saloons, or reposes within damask curtains ; Wretchedness cowers into... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - Clothing and dress - 1885 - 490 pages
...under that hideous coverlet of vapors, and putrefactions, and unimaginable gases, what a Fermenting-vat lies simmering and hid ! The joyful and the sorrowful...them all is the vast, void Night. The proud Grandee still lingers in his perfumed saloons, or reposes within damask curtains ; Wretchedness cowers into... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1883 - 638 pages
...under that hideous coverlet of vapours, and putrefactions, and imaginable gases, what a fermenting vat lies simmering and hid. The joyful and the sorrowful...cursing ; and around them all is the vast void night. . . . Gay mansions with supper rooms, are full of light and music, and high swelling hearts ; but,... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1885 - 688 pages
...that hideous coverlet of vapours, and " putrefactions, and unimaginable gases, what a Fermenting" vat lies simmering and hid ! The joyful and the sorrowful...— on the other side of a brick partition, men are curs" ing ; and around them all is the vast, void Night. The proud " Grandee still lingers in his perfumed... | |
| Frederick Saunders - English literature - 1887 - 232 pages
...under that hideous coverlet of vapours and putrefactions and unimaginable gases, what a fermenting vat lies simmering and hid ! The joyful and the sorrowful...them all is the vast, void Night. The proud grandee still lingers in his perfumed saloons, or reposes within damask curtains ; wretchedness cowers into... | |
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