 Carlyle was a man from his youth, an author who did not need to hide from his readers, and as absolute a man of the world, unknown and exiled on that hill-farm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like...  Penn Monthly Magazine - Pagina 208geredigeerd door - 1881Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 318 pagina’s
...hill-farm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff -like brow, self-possessed and holding his extraordinary...anecdote and with a streaming humor which floated every thing he looked upon. His talk playfully exalting the familiar objects, put the companion at... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 304 pagina’s
...hill-fann, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff -like brow, self-possessed and holding his extraordinary...anecdote and with a streaming humor which floated every thing he looked upon. His talk playfully exalting the familiar objects, put the companion at... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 320 pagina’s
...his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self -possessed and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation...anecdote and with a streaming humor which floated every thing he looked upon. His talk playfully exalting the familiar objects, put the companion at... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 308 pagina’s
...what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff -like brow, self-possessed and holding Ms extraordinary "powers of conversation in easy command...anecdote and with a streaming humor which floated every thing he looked upon. His talk playfully exalting the familiar objects, put the companion at... | |
 | Sarah A. Tooley - 1884 - 300 pagina’s
...if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation...easy command ; clinging to his northern accent with evidentrelish ; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humour which floated everything he looked... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1887 - 514 pagina’s
...their purple heather, if you only came near enough to his heart to feel it. " He was," says Emerson, " tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed,...extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command. . . . We talked of books. Plato he does not read, and he disparaged Socrates. Gibbon he called the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pagina’s
...world, unknown and exiled on that hill-farm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed,...relish ; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humour, which floated everything he looked upon. His talk playfully exalting the familiar objects,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 308 pagina’s
...hill-farm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff -like brow, self-possessed and holding his extraordinary...anecdote and with a streaming humor which floated every thing he looked upon. His talk playfully exalting the familiar objects, put the companion at... | |
 | John Rogers Rees - 1889 - 290 pagina’s
...world, unknown and exiled on that hillfarm, as if holding in his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed,...relish ; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humour which floated everything he looked upon. . . . Few were the objects, and lonely the man —... | |
 | Joseph Forster - 1890 - 160 pagina’s
...world, unknown and exiled on that hill farm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed,...relish ; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humour, which floated everything he looked upon. His talk, playfully exulting the familiar objects,... | |
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