 ... genuine exhibition of the scenes they move in ; the occasional touches of eloquence and tenderness, and even of poetry, the very essence of poetry ; the quantity of thought and knowledge embodied in a style so...  A Defence of Ignorance - Page 8by Henry Morley - 1851 - 111 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - German fiction - 1824 - 354 pages
...thought and knowledge embodied in a style so rich in general felicities, of which, at least, the new and sometimes exquisitely happy metaphors have been preserved,—"•...observing reader, even on the most cursory perusal. To those who have formed for themselves a picture of the world, who have drawn out, from the thousand... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Italy - 1851 - 190 pages
...tenderness, and even of poetry, the very essence of poetry ; the quantity of thonght and know ledge embodicd exquisitely happy metaphors have been preserved, -...husbandry and art and religion and human conduct in the nineteentb century, but geology, astronomy, cotton-spinning, metallurgy, anatomical lecturing, and... | |
 | 1851 - 112 pages
...thought and knowledge embodied In a style so nch in general felicitles, of which, at least, the new and sometimes exquisitely happy metaphors have been preserved,...and husbandry and art and religion and human conduct ill the nineteenth century, but geology, astronomy, cotton-spinning, metallurgy, anatomical lecturing,... | |
 | Britons - Bronze age - 1851 - 378 pages
...thought and knowledge embodied in a style so nch in general felicities, of which, at least, the new and sometimes exquisitely happy metaphors have been preserved,-...cursory perusal. Not pedagogy only, and husbandry anil an ana religion and human conduct in the nineteenth century, but geology, astronomy, cotton-spinning,... | |
 | Benjamin Samuel Williams - 1852 - 194 pages
...and even of poctry, the very essence of poctry ; the quantity of thonght and knowledge emhodied ma style sO nch in general felicities, of which, at least,...pedagogy only, and husbandry and art and religion and numan conduct in the nineteenth century, but geology, astronomy, cotton-spinning, metallurgy, anatomical... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1852 - 396 pages
...general felicities, of which, at leaat, the new and sometimes exquisitely happy metaphors have heen preserved, - cannot wholly escape an observing reader,...only, and husbandry and art and religion and human condnct in the nineteenth century, but geology, astronomy, cotton*spinning, metallurgy, anatomical... | |
 | William Hepworth Dixon - Great Britain - 1852 - 478 pages
...exquisitely happy metaphors have heen preserved, - cannot wholly escape an observing reader, even on the must cursory perusal. Not pedagogy only, and husbandry...religion and human conduct in the nineteenth century, bui geology, astronomy, cotton-spinning, metallurgy, anatomical lecturing, and much else, arc typically... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1853 - 342 pages
...thought and knowledge embodied in a style so rich in general felicities. of which, at least, the new and sometimes exquisitely happy metaphors have been preserved,...religion and human conduct in the nineteenth century, but geulogy, astronomy, cotton-spinning, metallurgy, anatomical lecturing, anil much else, are typically... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Chartism - 1864 - 352 pages
...thought and knowledge embodied in a style so rich in general felicities, of which, at least, the new and sometimes exquisitely happy metaphors have been preserved,...observing reader, even on the most cursory perusal. To those who have formed for themselves a picture of the world, who have drawn out, from the thousand... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Essays - 1869 - 428 pages
...thought and knowledge embodied in a style so rich in general felicities, of which, at least, the new and sometimes exquisitely happy metaphors have been preserved,—...observing reader, even on the most cursory perusal. To those who have formed for themselves a picture of the world, who have drawn out, from the thousand... | |
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