 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...power of vision, such a faculty of thought, if we take all the characters of it, in any other man. Such a calmness of depth ; placid joyous strength...understanding manifested, equal to that in Bacon's Novum Organ-urn. That is true ; and it is not a truth that strikes every one. It would become more apparent,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Hero worship - 1842 - 414 pages
...such a power of vision, faculty of thought, if we take all the characters of it, in any other man. Such a calmness of depth, placid joyous strength ;...unfathomable sea ! It has been said, that in the constructing pf Shakspeare's Dramas there is, apart from all other ' faculties ' as they are called, an understanding... | |
 | 1854 - 534 pages
...such a power of vision, faculty of thought, if we take. all the characters of it, in any other man. Such a calmness of depth, placid joyous strength ;...true and clear, as in a tranquil unfathomable sea!' The heroism of these men consists ia their prevalent fidelity to nature— in the power which they... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1858 - 412 pages
...power of vision, such a faculty of thought, if we take all the characters of it, in any other man. Such a calmness of depth ; placid joyous strength...so true and clear, as in a tranquil •unfathomable sea/j^xlt has been said, that in the constructing of Shakspeare's Dramas there is, apart from all other... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Hero worship - 1859 - 222 pages
...power of vision, such a faculty of thought, if we take all the characters of it, in any other man. Such a calmness of depth ; placid joyous strength...Shakspeare's Dramas there is, apart from all other c faculties' as they are called, an understanding manifested, equal to that in Bacon's Novum Organum.... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 pages
...power of vision, such a faculty of thought, if we take all the characters of it, in any other man. Such a calmness of depth; placid joyous strength ;...understanding manifested, equal to that in Bacon's Novuin Organum. That is true ; and it is not a truth that strikes every one. It would become more apparent... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1866 - 232 pages
...power of vision, such a 'faculty of thought, if we take all the characters of it, in any other man. Such a calmness of depth ; placid joyous strength...understanding manifested, equal to that in Bacon's Novum Organ-urn. That is true ; and it is not a truth that strikes every one. It would become more apparent... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1872 - 438 pages
...power of vision, such a faculty of thought, if we take all the characters of it, in any other man. Such a calmness of depth ; placid joyous strength...understanding manifested, equal to that in Bacon's Novum Oryanum. That is true ; and it is not a truth that strikes every one. It would become more apparent... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1874 - 454 pages
...power of vision, such a faculty of thought, if we take all the characters of it, in any other man. Such a calmness of depth, placid, joyous strength,...that great soul of his so true and clear, as in a tranqnil, uufathomable sea! " OTHELLO'S SPEECH TO THE SENATE. MOST potent, grave, and reverend signiors,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1876 - 412 pages
...power of vision, such a faculty of thought, if we take all the characters of it, in any other man. Such a calmness of depth ; placid joyous strength...understanding manifested, equal to that in Bacon's Novtttn Organnm. That is true ; and it is not a truth that strikes every one. It would become more... | |
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Shakspeare is the chief of all poets hitherto ; the greatest intellect who, in our recorded world, has left record of himself in the way of literature. On the whole, I know not such a power of vision, such a faculty of thought, if we take all the characters... 
