 | William Wilson Hunter - 1897 - 208 páginas
...and gnashing in the darkness, except when Stella's sweet smile came and shone on him. When that went, silence and utter night closed over him. An immense genius, an awful downfall and ruin.' ' A good woman,' he says elsewhere, ' is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven, and we look... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 828 páginas
...the darkness, except when Stella's sweeTT smile came and shone upon him. When that went, silence an3 utter night closed over him. An immense genius : an...— none I think, however, so great or so gloomy. * " M. Swift est Rabelais dans son bon sens, et vivant en bonne compagnie. Il n'a pas, à la vérité,... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1900 - 230 páginas
...Stella's sweet smile came and shone on him. When that went, silence and utter night closed over Mm. An immense genius, an awful downfall and ruin ! So...mention,— none I think, however, so great or so gloomy." And so we pass on from Swift, feeling that though the man was certainly a humorist, we have had as... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 414 páginas
...faut faire un petit voyage dans son 35 pays." — VOLTAIRE: Lettrti sur les Anglais. Lettre XX. went, silence and utter night closed over him. An immense...that thinking of him is like thinking of an empire ialling. We have other great names to mention — none I think, however, so great or so gloomy. Congreve... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 410 páginas
...our list. It will be remembered that at the conclusion of the lecture on Swift, Thackeray remarked, "We have other great names to mention — none I think, however, so great or so gloomy." Lecturers are sometimes careless in the use of adjectives. 168. 26. — The greatest literary artist.... | |
 | Walter Rowlands - 1900 - 380 páginas
...The Great Masters of Literature. when Stella's sweet smile came and shone upon him. When that went, silence and utter night closed over him. An immense genius ; an awful downfall and ruin." The father of Miss Dicksee, to whom we owe " Swift and Stella," was a well-known English artist, and... | |
 | William Crary Brownell - 1901 - 308 páginas
...present day, the work may certainly be said to have been lightly undertaken. The lecture on Swift ends: " We have other great names to mention — none I think, however, so great or so gloomy." The consideration of Pope begins: " We are now come to the greatest name on our list." Stella is made... | |
 | William Crary Brownell - 1901 - 318 páginas
...day, the work may certainly be said to have been lightly undertaken. The lecture on Swift ends : " We have other great names to mention — none I think, however, so great 23 or so gloomy." The consideration of Pope begins: " We are now come to the greatest name on our list."... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 418 páginas
...gnashing in the darkness, except when Stella's sweet smile came and shone upon him. When that went, silence and utter night closed over him. An immense...thinking of an empire falling. We have other great names tomention — none I think, however, so great or so gloomy. CONGEE VE AND ADDISON. GREAT number of... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1902 - 312 páginas
...moralists of those times. But to return. Thackeray, in speaking of Swift's last days, has finely said : ' So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling.' The expression is not exaggerated. Swift is the one figure of colossal proportions in the age to which... | |
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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. 
