| Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pagine
...this place ! One comfort is, that Great Men, taken up in any way, are profitable company. We catuiot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man, without gaining something by him. He is «ie living light-fountain, which it is good and pleasant to be atar. The light which enlightens, which... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1841 - 408 pagine
...this place ! One comfort is, that Great Men, taken up in any way, are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man, without...the gift of Heaven ; a flowing light-fountain, as I say, of native original insight, of manhood and heroic nobleness ; — in whose radiance all souls... | |
| 1843 - 1068 pagine
...realization and embodiment of thoughts that dwelt in the great men sent into the world. . . . We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man, without...by him. He is the living light-fountain, which it iļ good and pleasant to be near. The light which enlightens, which has enlightened the world, and... | |
| 1919 - 1188 pagine
...memorable passage, 'one comfort is that great men, taken up in any way, arc profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man, without...light-fountain, which it is good and pleasant to be near.' The worship of heroes has been common to all the great, emancipating periods of history, for the simple... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1846 - 490 pagine
...this place ! One comfort is, that Great Men, taken up in any way, are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man, without gaining something by him. He is the living light fountain, which it is good and pleasant to be near. .The light which enlightens, which has enlightened... | |
| John Frost - 1847 - 590 pagine
...considered, were the history of these. " Great men, taken up in any way, are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man, without...enlightened the darkness of the world : and this not a kindled lamp only, but rather as a natural luminary shining by the gift of Heaven ; a flowing light-fountain,... | |
| Thomas Leverton Donaldson - 1847 - 150 pagine
...however imperfectly upon a great man without gaining something from him. He is the living light fountain, which it is good and pleasant to be near. The light,...enlightened the darkness of the world. And this not as a kindred lamp only, but rather as a material luminary, shining by the gift of Heaven ; a flowing light... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1849 - 260 pagine
...place ! JJ: One comfort is, that Great Men, taken up in any way, are prof- -> itable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a . ^ great man, without...luminary shining by the gift of Heaven; a flowing light2 fountain, as I say, of native original insight, of manhood and heroic nobleness;—in whose... | |
| 1855 - 336 pagine
...author paints the virtues of his favorite heroes, ns if he thought, with Carlyle, that " we cannot, look, however imperfectly, upon a great man, without...light-fountain, which it is good and pleasant to be near." Carlyle's heroes were, however, the honored dead, while we are called to bestow transcendent admiration... | |
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