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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. "
The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and Notes - Página 222
por William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - 1909 - 351 páginas
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The Living Age, Volumen289

1916 - 880 páginas
...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...
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The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 páginas
...fondest admirer, Pope. His laugh jars on one's ear after seven score years. He was always alone — alone and gnashing in the darkness, except when Stella's...of an empire falling. We have other great names to mention — none I think, however, so great or so gloomy. qui manquent k notre cure de Meudon. Ses...
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The Church of England quarterly review, Volumen34

1853 - 526 páginas
...fondest admirer Pope. His laugh jars on one's ear after seven score years. He was always alone — alone and gnashing in the darkness, except when Stella's...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...
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The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 páginas
...fondest admirer, Pope. His laugh jars on one's ear after seven score years. He was always alone — alone and gnashing in the darkness, except when Stella's...sweet smile came and shone upon him. When that went, 1 " M. Swift est Rabelais dans son bon sens, et vivant en bonne compagnie. II n'a pass, a la verite,...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volumen20

1854 - 788 páginas
...His laugh jars on one's ear after seven score years. He was always alone — alone and gnashing in darkness, except when Stella's sweet smile came and...that went, silence and utter night closed over him. AÜ immense genius ; an awful downfall and ruia! So great a man he seems to me, that thinkng of him...
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The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 páginas
...fondest admirer, Pope. His laugh jars on one's ear after seven score years. He was always alone — alone and gnashing in the darkness, except when Stella's...sweet smile came and shone upon him. When that went, 1 " M. Swift est Rabelais dans son bon sens, et vivant en bonne compagnie. II n'a pass, a la ve'rite',...
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A Third Gallery of Portraits

George Gilfillan - 1855 - 492 páginas
...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...
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Critics and miscellaneous writers. Sacred authors

George Gilfillan - 1857 - 384 páginas
...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...
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The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of ..., Tema 76

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1858 - 360 páginas
...fondest admirer, Pope. His laugh jars on one's ear after seven score years. He was always alone — alone and gnashing in the darkness, except when Stella's...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...
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The Life of Bishop Berkeley

John Nicholas Norton - 1861 - 322 páginas
...seven score years. He was always alone, and gnashing in the darkness, except when Stella's sweet ginile came and shone upon him ; when that went, silence...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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