 | City and town life - 1905 - 408 pages
...that hideous coverlet of vapours, and putre" factions, and unimaginable gases, what a Ferment" ing-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... | |
 | Paul Griswold Huston - 1906 - 378 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...cursing; and around them all is the vast, void Night." Readers of Richard Jefferies will remember the terrible experience that Felix underwent in his unintended... | |
 | Paul Griswold Huston - Colerain (Hamilton County, Ohio : Township) - 1906 - 376 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...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 - Hero worship - 1908 - 516 pages
...under that hideous covelet 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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1908 - 352 pages
...that hideous coverlet of vapours, and putre" factions, 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 ; Wretched" ness cowers... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Clothing and dress - 1908 - 352 pages
...vapours, and putre" factions, and unimaginable gases, what a Fermenting-vat " lies simmering and hid 1 The joyful and the sorrowful " are there ; men are...them all is the vast, void " Night. The proud Grandee still lingers in his perfumed " saloons, or reposes within damask curtains ; Wretched" ness cowers... | |
 | Jacques Futrelle - Man-woman relationships - 1911 - 328 pages
...beehive, and witnessed their wax-laying and honey-making and poisonbrewing, and choking by sulphur. . . . The joyful and the sorrowful are there; men are dying there ; men are being born ; men are praying. . . . Councilors of state sit plotting and playing their high chess game, whereof the pawns are men."... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Charles Seymour - France - 1915 - 298 pages
...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... | |
 | Bliss Perry - Authors, Scottish - 1915 - 302 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, Charles Seymour - France - 1915 - 298 pages
...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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I say, like the stertorous, unquiet slumber of sick Life, is heard in Heaven ! Oh, under that hideous coverlet of vapours, and putrefactions, and unimaginable gases, what a Fermentingvat lies simmering and hid! The joyful and the sorrowful are there;... 
