 | 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... | |
 | 1843 - 1068 pagine
...standing accomplished in the world, are properly the outer material result, the practical realization and embodiment of thoughts that dwelt in the great...by him. He is the living light-fountain, which it iï good and pleasant to be near. The light which enlightens, which has enlightened the world, and... | |
 | 1919 - 1188 pagine
...in a memorable passage, 'one comfort is that great men, taken up in any way, arc profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great...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
...justice to in this place ! One comfort is, that Great Men, taken up in any way, are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great...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
...be considered, were the history of these. " Great men, taken up in any way, are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great...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
...the history of these. " 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 from him. He is the living light fountain, which it is good and pleasant to be near. The light, which... | |
 | 1855 - 336 pagine
...Sketchings," the author paints the virtues of his favorite heroes, ns if he thought, with Carlyle, that " we cannot, look, however imperfectly, upon a great...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... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pagine
...passes on like Samson, and "tells neither father nor mothor of it." LamteT. GH I'! Л Т NESS -Human. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great...light-fountain, which it is good and pleasant to be near ; tho light which enlightens, which has enlightened, the darkness of the world ; and this, not as a... | |
 | Henry Griffin Parrish - 1863 - 338 pagine
...reputation. We may use the words of Carlyle, in bidding farewell to the subject of this sketch : " We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great...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 Seely Hart - 1866 - 554 pagine
...York. HANDEL. CARLYLE truly observes, that "great men, taken up in any way, are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man, without gaining something from him. He is the (4=41) living light-fountain which it is so good and pleasant to be near." Carlyle... | |
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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. 
