 | John Morley - 1894 - 702 pages
...he speaks disparagingly of Landor as " a wild man, whom no extent of culture had been able to tame ! His intellectual faculty seemed to me to be weak in...object : and sides of an object are all that he sees." De te fabnla. Emerson answers defending Landor, and indicating points of likeness between him and Carlyle.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1896 - 132 pages
...of sport but of mockery; a wild man, whom no extent of culture had LA PLACE 57 been able to tame ! His intellectual faculty seemed to me to be weak in...sighs over the spectacle of common-place torn to rags. — Correspondence of Carlyle and Emerson, vol. i. La Place. 1749-1827 The skirt of his long blue-silk... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1896 - 432 pages
...instructively with Carlyle's sketch. mockery ; a wild man, whom no extent of culture had been able to tame ! His intellectual faculty seemed to me to be weak in proportion to his vio| lence of temper : the judgment he gives about anything is more apt to be wrong than right, —... | |
 | John Nichol - 1902 - 282 pages
...he speaks disparagingly of Landor as "a wild man, whom no extent of culture had been able to tame ! His intellectual faculty seemed to me to be weak in...object : and sides of an object are all that he sees. " De te fabula, Emerson answers defending Landor, and indicating points of likeness between him and... | |
 | John Nichol - 1892 - 268 pages
...he speaks disparagingly of Landor as "a wild man, whom no extent of culture had been able to tame ! His intellectual faculty seemed to me to be weak in...object : and sides of an object are all that he sees. " De te fdbula. Emerson answers defending Landor, and indicating points of likeness between him and... | |
 | James Cotter Morison - 1904 - 712 pages
...he speaks disparagingly of Landor as "a wild man, whom DO extent of culture had been able to tame ! His intellectual faculty seemed to me to be weak in...shows him this side or the other of the object : and -titles of an object are all that he sees. " De te f/ibula. Emerson answers defending Landor, and indicating... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1904 - 800 pages
...sharp laugh not of sport but of mockery; a wild man, whom no extent of culture had been able to tame! His intellectual faculty seemed to me to be weak in...shows him this side or the other of the object; and tides of an object are all he sees. He is not an original man; in most cases one but sighs over the... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - 1907 - 482 pages
...of culture has been able to tame ! His intellectual faculty seemed to be weak in proportion to the violence of temper ; the judgment he gives about anything...other of the object; and sides of an object are all he sees. He is not an original man ; in most cases one but sighs over the spectacle of commonplace... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 810 pages
...sharp laugh not of sport but of mockery; a wild man, whom no extent of culture had been able to tame! His intellectual faculty seemed to me to be weak in...other of the object; and sides of an object are all he sees. He is not an original man ; in most cases one but sighs over the spectacle of common-place... | |
 | John M. Robertson - 2002 - 288 pages
...mockery ; a wild man, whom no extent of culture has been able to tame! His intellectual faculty seemed to be weak in proportion to his violence of temper ; the judgment he gives about anything ia more apt to be wrong than right— as the inward whirlwind shows him this side or the other of the... | |
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... laugh not of sport but of mockery; a wild man, whom no extent of culture had been able to tame! His intellectual faculty seemed to me to be weak in proportion to his violence of temper: the judgment he gives about anything is more apt to be wrong... 
