 | Margaret Fuller - 1852 - 350 pages
...is the heroic arrogance of some old Scandinavian conqueror; — it is his nature, and the untamable impulse that has given him power to crush the dragons....epithet, which serves as a refrain when his song is full, or with which, as with a knitting needle, be catches up the stitches, if he has chanced, now and then,... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - Authors, American - 1852 - 366 pages
...heroic arrogance of some old Scandinavian conqueror; — it is his nature, and the untamable energy that has given him power to crush the dragons. You...critical poem, with regular cadences, and generally, near the beginning, hitsupon some singular epithet, which serves as a refrain when his song is full,... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - Europe - 1856 - 506 pages
...; yet never was man more fitted to prize a man, could he find one to match his mood. He finds such, but only in the past. He sings rather than talks....epithet, which serves as a refrain when his song is full, or with which as with a knitting-needle he catches up the stitches if he has chanced now and then to... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - Europe - 1856 - 488 pages
...; yet never was man more fitted to prize a man, could he find one to match hia mood. He finds such, but only in the past. He sings rather than talks....poem, with regular cadences, and generally catching tip near the beginning some singular epithet, which serves as a refrain when his song is full, or with... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - Europe - 1856 - 492 pages
...; yet never was man more fitted to prize a man, could he find one to match his mood. He finds such, but only in the past. He sings rather than talks. He pours upon you a kind of satirical, hcroical, critical poem, with regular cadences, and generally catching up near the beginning some singular... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 588 pages
...the author's mode of conversation, says, " He sings rather than talks" — and goes on to tell how he pours upon you a kind of satirical, heroical, critical...epithet, which serves as a refrain when his song is full, or with which, " as with a knitting-needle, he catches up the stitches if he has chanced, now and then,... | |
 | American literature - 1857 - 602 pages
...the author's mode of conversation, says, "He sings rather than talks" — and 'goes on to tell how he pours upon you a kind of satirical, heroical, critical...epithet, which serves as a refrain when his song is full, or with which, " as with a knitting-needle, he catches up the stitches if he has chanced, now and then,... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - Europe - 1869 - 482 pages
...; yet never was man more fitted to prize a man, could he find one to match his mood. He finds such, but only in the past. He sings rather than talks....epithet, which serves as a refrain when his song is full, or with which as with a knitting-needle he catches up the stitches if he has chanced now and then to... | |
 | Thomas Ballantyne - Quotations - 1870 - 256 pages
...if you senselessly go too near. He seemed to be quite isolated, lonely as the desert, yet never was man more fitted to prize a man, could he find one...epithet, which serves as a refrain when his song is full, or with which, as with a knitting needle, he catches up the stitches if he has chanced now and then... | |
 | Medley, G F S - 1870 - 148 pages
...revere ; and perhaps, also, he would only laugh at you if you did. Ho sings, rather than talks. Ho pours upon you a kind of satirical, heroical, critical...epithet which serves as a refrain when his song is full. The worst of Carlyle is that you cannot interrupt him, 'Tis a physical impossibility. M. FULLER. His... | |
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He seems, to me, quite isolated, — lonely as the desert, — yet never was a man more fitted to prize a man, could he find one to match his mood. He finds them, but only in the past. He sings, rather than talks. He pours upon you a kind of satirical,... 
