 | John Churton Collins - 1902 - 312 頁
...moralists of those times. But to return. Thackeray, in speaking of Swift's last days, has finely said : ' So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling.' The expression is not exaggerated. Swift is the one figure of colossal proportions in the age to which... | |
 | Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh - 1903 - 460 頁
...fondest admirer, Pope. His laugh jars on one's ear after seven-score years. He was always alone — alone and gnashing in the darkness, except when Stella's...of an empire falling. We have other great names to mention — none, I think, however, so great or so gloomy. ZEBULON BAIRD VANCE THE SCATTERED NATION... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1905 - 428 頁
...fondest admirer, Pope. His laugh jars on one's ear after seven score years. He was always alone — alone and gnashing in the darkness, except when Stella's...him. When that went, silence and utter night closed 1 " M. Swift est Rabelais dans son bon sens, et vivant en bonne compagnie. II n'a pas, a la verite,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1906 - 192 頁
...admirer, Pope. His laugh jars on one's ear after seven ^- score years. He was always alone — alone and . gnashing in the darkness, except when Stella's...that went, silence and utter night closed over him. I An immense genius: an awful downfall and ruin. ' So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of... | |
 | Milton Reed - 1907 - 72 頁
...strange fascination invests the name of Shakspeare. Thackeray said of the insanity of Dean Swift : "So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling." So when we talk of Shakspeare, it almost seems that we are talking of collective humanity. He was no... | |
 | Martha Hale Shackford, Margaret Judson - 1908 - 496 頁
...fastest friend, Sheridan; he shrank away from his fondest admirer, Pope. His laugh jars on one's ears after sevenscore years. He was always alone—alone...like thinking of an empire falling. We have other names to mention—none I think, however, so great or so gloomy.—THACKERAY : English Humorists. Swift.... | |
 | Martha Hale Shackford - 1908 - 496 頁
...fondest admirer, Pope. His laugh jars on one's ears after sevenscore years. He was always alone — alone and gnashing in the darkness, except when Stella's...like thinking of an empire falling. We have other names to mention — none I think, however, so great or so gloomy. — THACKERAY : English Humorists.... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, Thomas H. Dickinson - 1908 - 508 頁
...He was always alone — alone and gnashing in the darkness, except when Stella's sweet smile came 20 and shone upon him. When that went, silence and utter...of an empire falling. We have other great names to mention — none I think, 25 however, so great or so gloomy. Prose — 16 JOHN HENRY NEWMAN [John Henry... | |
 | Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere - 1908 - 612 頁
...misery as great, as inevitable, as inexorable as classic Fate. "An immense genius," says Thackeray; "an awful downfall and ruin. So great a man he seems...thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling." And Taine concludes : " A philosopher against all philosophy, he created a realistic poem, a grave... | |
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So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling. We have other great names to mention — none I think, however, so great or so gloomy. 
