| 1876 - 1204 דפים
...there is in his portraits a look of thoughtful, honest manliness, combined with great tenderness. " Great men taken up in any way are profitable company....look, however imperfectly, upon a great man, without gaming something by him." These words have been our motto throughout this short study of Schiller's... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 דפים
...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... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1841 - 408 דפים
...of these. Too clearly it is a topic we shall do no justice to in this place ! One comfort is, that Great Men, taken up in any way, are profitable company....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... | |
| 1843 - 1068 דפים
...practical realization and embodiment of thoughts that dwelt in the great men sent into the world. . . . We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great...without gaining something by him. He is the living light-fountain, which it iï good and pleasant to be near. The light which enlightens, which has enlightened... | |
| 1919 - 1188 דפים
...comfort,' wrote Carlyle in a memorable passage, 'one comfort is that great men, taken up in any way, arc profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly,...without gaining something by him. He is the living light-fountain, which it is good and pleasant to be near.' The worship of heroes has been common to... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1846 - 490 דפים
...of these. Too clearly it is a topic we shall do no justice to in this place ! One comfort is, that Great Men, taken up in any way, are profitable company....fountain, which it is good and pleasant to be near. .The light which enlightens, which has enlightened the darkness of the world ; and this not as a kindled... | |
| John Frost - 1847 - 590 דפים
...: the soul of the whole world's history, it may justly be considered, were the history of these. " Great men, taken up in any way, are profitable company....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... | |
| Thomas Leverton Donaldson - 1847 - 150 דפים
...whole world's history, it may justly be considered, were the history of these. " One comfort is, that great men, taken up in any way, are profitable company....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... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1849 - 260 דפים
...justice to in this place ! JJ: One comfort is, that Great Men, taken up in any way, are prof- -> itable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon...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... | |
| 1855 - 336 דפים
...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...without gaining something by him. He is the living light-fountain, which it is good and pleasant to be near." Carlyle's heroes were, however, the honored... | |
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