 | Emile Pons - 1925 - 448 頁
...rapide et simple de 1 « His laugh jars on one's car after seven score years. He was always alone, alone and gnashing in the darkness, except when Stella's sweet smile came and shone upon him. An immense genius : an awful downfall and ruin. So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of him... | |
 | Robert M. Polhemus - 1982 - 408 頁
...His laugh jars on one's ears. . . . He was always alone— alone and gnashing in the darkness,.... An immense genius: an awful downfall and ruin. So...of an empire falling. We have other great names to mention— none, I think, however, so great or so gloomy. 26 He projects himself into Swift's life... | |
 | Michael A. Steinman - 1983 - 212 頁
...irrational rage and envy. Although Swift's suffering was different, Yeats may have thought of Thackeray's "So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling." 2 These models for public heroism were also destroyed by the rage against their private lives: whether... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1996 - 310 頁
...laugh at that tragedy? — he is even surprised into an involuntary expression of admiration : — " So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of him is like thinking of an in the thirty-fifth chapter of 'The Ncwcomes,' with 1 Inwthornc's, in the eleventh chapter of the second... | |
 | Lawrence Rainey - 2005 - 1217 頁
...true that Thackeray later pays Swift one of the finest tributes that a man has ever given or received: "So great a man he seems to me that thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling." And Mr. Aldington, in his time, is almost equally generous.) Whether it is possible to libel humanity... | |
 | 100 頁
...poetry and prose, chiefly in the form of pamphlets. William Makepeace Thackeray once said of the author: "So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling." Swift's religious writing is little read today. His most famous works include THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 2007 - 298 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 great18 or so gloomy. 14 these MSB (]T) 15 [No paragraph break]... | |
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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. 
