 He was a strong man," so intimates Charles Harvey, who knew him: "in the dark perils of war, in the high places of the field, hope shone in him like a pillar of fire, when it had gone out in all the others.  The Works of Lord Morley ... - Page 292by John Morley - 1921Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Cromwell - Great Britain - 1894 - 540 pages
...business of the hour. ' He was a strong man,' so intimates Charles Harvey, who knew him : ' in the dark perils of war, in the high places of the ' field,...like a pillar of fire, when it had gone ' out in all the others. '* A genuine King among men, Mr. Harvey. The divinest sight this world sees, — when it... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - American literature - 1895 - 440 pages
...can sympathize with the words of John Majdstone : — " He [Cromwell] wag a strong man in the dark perils of war ; in the high places of the field, hope...him like a pillar of fire, when it had gone out in the others " — a poetic and sufficient account of the secret of his power. But Mr. Carlyle goes on... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 414 pages
...business of the hour. ' He was a strong man,' so intimates Charles Harvey, who knew him : ' in the dark perils of war, in the high places of the field, hope...like a pillar of fire, when it had gone out in all the others.'2 A genuine King among men, Mr. Harvey. The divinest sight this world sees, — when it... | |
 | Sidney James Mark Low, Sir Sidney Low - Great Britain - 1896 - 1142 pages
...his was." " He was a strong man," adds another observer ; " in the dark perils of war, in the hieh places of the field, hope shone in him like a pillar of fire when it had gone out in all the others." [COMMON-WEALTH.] Oirlj'le, Cromwell'« belter« and Spcechts: Noble, Ноше o/Croin«4I:... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 428 pages
...business of the hour. ' He was a strong man,' so intimates Charles Harvey, who knew him : ' in the dark perils of war, in the high places of the field, hope...like a pillar of fire, when it had gone out in all the others.' 2 A genuine King among men, Mr. Harvey. The divinest sight this world sees, — when it... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - Great Britain - 1898 - 248 pages
...of the Commonwealth. As Harvey, one of his attendants, writes : " He was a strong man, in the dark perils of war, in the high places of the field ; hope...like a pillar of fire, when it had gone out in all the others." Cromwell's position was " very difficult," as he said, but not desperate. He was not yet... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Biography - 1898 - 230 pages
...business of the hour. " He was a strong man," so intimates Charles Harvey, who knew him : " in the dark perils of war, in the high places of the field, hope...like a pillar of fire, when it had gone out in all the others." f Agenuine King * 27,000 say the English Pamphlets ; 16,000 foot and 7,000 horse, says... | |
 | Robert Forman Horton - Great Britain - 1899 - 228 pages
...was a remark made by his friend Charles Harvey long afterwards : " He was a strong man ; in the dark perils of war, in the high places of the field, hope...like a pillar of fire when it had gone out in all the others." His correspondence admits us to the secret of this hope. He was entirely unembarrassed... | |
 | Sir Richard Tangye - History - 1899 - 316 pages
...cast down, and his attendant, Harvey, wrote of him at that time : " He was a strong man in the dark perils of war, in the high places of the field ; hope...like a pillar of fire, when it had gone out in all the others." His main hope lay in the chance of Lesley making a mistake, and, to his great relief,... | |
 | Newell Dwight Hillis - Character - 1899 - 402 pages
...Tennyson it may be said, as it was of Cromwell, "He was a strong man in the dark perils of war, and in the high places of the field hope shone in him like a pillar of fire when it had gone out in others." For our literary critics it is not enough to mention Tennyson as the most representative poet... | |
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