 | Walter Swain Hinchman - English literature - 1915 - 488 pages
...under that hideous coverlet of vapors, and putrefaction, 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. . . . Upwards of five hundred thousand two-legged animals without feathers lie around us, in horizontal... | |
 | Joseph Albert Mosher - Gesture - 1917 - 452 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... | |
 | Lee Emerson Bassett - Elocution - 1917 - 376 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... | |
 | Algernon de Vivier Tassin - English literature - 1923 - 456 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... | |
 | John Drinkwater - Literature - 1927 - 604 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... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - English prose literature - 1923 - 290 pages
...under what hideous coverlet of vapours, and putrefactions, and unimaginable gases what a fermentingvat 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... | |
 | Joseph Albert Mosher - Gesture - 1920 - 668 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 - 1927 - 296 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 - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 548 pages
...under that hideous coverlet of vapours, and putrefactions, and unimaginable gases, what a Fermentingvat 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... | |
 | Anthony Sutcliffe - History - 1984 - 494 pages
...Sartor Resartus (1831l shares with Egan's an emphasis on extremes and contrasts existing side by side: The joyful and the sorrowful are there; men are dying...cursing; and around them all is the vast, void Night [7]. Here, as also with Egan, the point of view - the necessary way of comprehending the scale of the... | |
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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;... 
