| 1824 - 494 sider
...his son with oriental and barbaric pageantry, — the civic grandeur of England, the great desarts of Asia and America, — the vast capitals of Europe,...would have found in his conversation. I however, who am perhaps the person best qualified to speak of him, must pronounce him to have been a man of great... | |
| 1823 - 696 sider
...his son with oriental and barbaric pageantry, — the civic grandeur of England, the great desarts Joy am perhaps the person best qualified to speak of him, must pronounce him to have been a man of great... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1855 - 312 sider
...mighty vision that had fleeted before his eyes in this world, — the armies of Hyder-Ali and his son with oriental and barbaric pageantry, — the civic...contemplation of the prodigious whole, he had no leisure 22 to separate the parts, or occupy his mind with details. Hence came the monotony which the frivolous... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1855 - 318 sider
...mighty vision that had fleeted before his eyes in this world, — the armies of Hyder-Ali and his son with oriental and barbaric pageantry, — the civic...contemplation of the prodigious whole, he had no leisure 22 to separate the parts, or occupy his mind with details. Hence came the monotony which the frivolous... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1864 - 316 sider
...mighty vision that had fleeted before his eyes in this world, — the armies of Hyder-Ali and his son with oriental and barbaric pageantry, — the civic...would have found in his conversation. I, however, who am perhaps the person best qualified to speak of him, must pronounce him to have been a man of great... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1864 - 316 sider
...grandeur of England, the great deserts of Asia and America,— the vast capitals of Europe,—London with its eternal agitations, the ceaseless ebb and...contemplation of the prodigious whole, he had no leisure 22 to separate the parts, or occupy his mind with details. Hence came the monotony which the frivolous... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1873 - 596 sider
...mighty vision that had fleeted before his eyes in this world, — the armies of Hyder-Ali and his son with oriental and barbaric pageantry, — the civic...eternally co-present to his view ; so that, in the contemptation of the prodigious whole, he had no leisure to separate the parts, or occupy his mind... | |
| 1881 - 578 sider
...mighty vision that had fleeted before his eyes in this world, — the armies of Hyder All and his son am perhaps the person best qualified to speak of him, must pronounce him to have been a man of great... | |
| William Minto - 1881 - 596 sider
...; together with innumerable recollections of individual joy and sorrow that he had participated in by sympathy, — lay like a map beneath him, as if...the contemplation of the prodigious whole, he had no Ifisure to separate the parts or occupy his mind with details." The machinations of secret societies... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1886 - 320 sider
...world, — the armies of Hycler Ali and his son with oriental and barbaric pageantry, — the civio grandeur of England — the great deserts of Asia...would have found in his conversation. I, however, who am perhaps the person best qualified to speak of him, must pronounce him to have been a man of great... | |
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