 | 1916 - 880 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1853 - 524 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | 1854 - 788 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 pagina’s
...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',... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1855 - 492 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | John Nicholas Norton - 1861 - 322 pagina’s
...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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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. 
