 | New Church gen. confer - 1859 - 602 pagine
...always alone — alone and gnashing in the darkness — an immense genius : an awful downfall and ruin. We have other great names to mention — none, I think, however, so great or so gloomy.' 2nd — Addison — .light, airy, genial, bottleloving Addison ! 3rd — Steele too ! ' Poor Dick —... | |
 | 1916 - 880 pagine
...lecture on Swift. Thackeray recognizes the lonely grandeur of his intellect and of his personality. "An immense genius; an awful downfall and ruin. So...thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling." An entirely apt and illuminating simile. Yet in the course of the lecture he brings charges against... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 pagine
...gnashing in the darkness, except when Stella's sweet smile came and shone upon him. When that went, silence and utter night closed over him. An immense...— none I think, however, so great or so gloomy. qui manquent k notre cure de Meudon. Ses vers sont d'un gout singulier, et presque inimitable; la bonne... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 pagine
...gnashing in the darkness, except when Stella's sweet smile came and shone upon him. When that went, silence and utter night closed over him. An immense...empire falling. We have other great names to mention — naae_I_think, however, so great or so gloomy. qui manquent k notre cure de Meudon. Ses vers sont... | |
 | 1853 - 524 pagine
...gnashing in the darkness, except when Stella's sweet smile came and shone upon him. When that went, silence and utter night closed over him. An immense...like thinking of an empire falling. We have other names to mention — none I think, however, so great or so gloomy." The succeeding " Lectures " present... | |
 | 1854 - 788 pagine
...over him. AÜ immense genius ; an awful downfall and ruia! So great a man he seems to me, that thinkng of him is like thinking of an empire falling ! We...— none, I think, however, so great or so gloomy." In listening to this lecture, we could almost fancy the old Dean rising from in* rave, standing before... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1855 - 492 pagine
...exception of the statements we liave exposed above, a few Carlylistic abruptnesses of style, such as " silence and utter night closed over him — an immense genius, an awful downfal and ruin," &c., is written with great pathos and energy; and if not so elaborate as Jeffrey's... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1857 - 384 pagine
...exception of the statements we have exposed above, a few Carlylistic abruptnesses of style, such as "silence and utter night closed over him — an immense genius, an awful downfal and ruin," &c., is written with great pathos and energy; and if not so elaborate as Jeffrey's... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1858 - 360 pagine
...gnashing in the darkness, except when Stella's sweet smile came and shone upon him. When that went, silence and utter night closed over him. An immense genius : an awful downfall and rum. So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling. We... | |
 | John Nicholas Norton - 1861 - 322 pagine
...gnashing in the darkness, except when Stella's sweet ginile came and shone upon him ; when that went, silence and utter night closed over him. An immense...thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling." The only charitable construction to be put upon much of his conduct is that the man was mad. sustained... | |
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So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling. We have other great names to mention — none I think, however, so great or so gloomy. 
