 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - Страниц: 520
...this place ! One comfort is, that Great Men, taken up in any way, are profitable company. We catuiot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man, without gaining something by him. He is «ie living light-fountain, which it is good and pleasant to be atar. The light which enlightens, which... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1846 - Страниц: 490
...justice to in this place ! One comfort is, that Great Men, taken up in any way, are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great...without gaining something by him. He is the living light fountain, which it is good and pleasant to be near. .The light which enlightens, which has enlightened... | |
 | Thomas Leverton Donaldson - 1847 - Страниц: 150
...the history of these. " One comfort is, that great men, taken up in any way, are profitable company. We cannot look however imperfectly upon a great man without gaining something from him. He is the living light fountain, which it is good and pleasant to be near. The light, which... | |
 | Henry Griffin Parrish - 1863 - Страниц: 338
...reputation. We may use the words of Carlyle, in bidding farewell to the subject of this sketch : " We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great...without gaining something by him. He is the living light fountain, which it is good and pleasant to be near ; the light which enlightens, which has enlightened... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1866 - Страниц: 554
...York. HANDEL. CARLYLE truly observes, that "great men, taken up in any way, are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man, without gaining something from him. He is the (4=41) living light-fountain which it is so good and pleasant to be near." Carlyle... | |
 | 1877 - Страниц: 610
...soul of the whole world's history, it may justly be conceded, ware the history of these. We»cannot look, however imperfectly upon a great man, without gaining something by him. He is the living light fountain, which it is good and pleasant to be near ; the light which enlightens, which has enlightened... | |
 | Albert Dresden Vandam - 1878 - Страниц: 386
...is," continues the sage of Chelsea, " that Great Men, taken up in any way, are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him." As such I must be excused for having treated of Lope de Vega's love-affairs, for not only do they enable... | |
 | 1880 - Страниц: 832
...stood the teacher of the present hour, that " Great men, taken up in any way, are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him. He is tilt1 living light, fountain of native, original insight of manhood and heroic nobleness, which it... | |
 | Richmond Athenaeum - 1886 - Страниц: 388
...hopeful that one good, if only one, may result from this dim and feeble sketch of a noble life, for — We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him. He is a living light fountain, which it is good and pleasant to be near. The light which enlightens the darkness... | |
 | 1900 - Страниц: 368
...upon it. The same adventurous spirit that led our fathers into Kentucky and into the Ohio wilderness, led them also into Indiana and Illinois, into Michigan...Says Carlyle: "We cannot look, however imperfectly, upou a great man without gaining something by him. He is the living light-fountain, which it is good... | |
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We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man, without gaining something by him. 
