 He was the greatest of the Britons of his time — and after the British fashion of not coming near perfection ; Titanic, not Olympian : a heaver of rocks, not a shaper. But if he did no perfect work, he had lightning's power to strike out marvellous...  Scribner's Magazine ... - Page 2841912Full view - About this book
 | 1914 - 552 pages
...— and after the British fashion of not coming near perfection ; Titanic, not Olympian : a heaven of rocks, not a shaper. But if he did no perfect work,...pictures, and reach to the inmost of men with a phrase." Like his master, Carlyle, George Meredith kept a constant eye on the political world, and one may gather... | |
 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1912 - 322 pages
...of his time— and after the British fashion of not coming near perfection ; Titanic, not Olympian ; a heaver of rocks, not a shaper. But 'if he did no...pictures and reach to the inmost of men with a phrase." * * * "BLACKWOOD" AM) ANDREW LANG. In the September issue of the time-honoured "Blackwood's Magazine"... | |
 | George Meredith - 1912 - 344 pages
...his time — and after the British fashion of not coming near perfection ; Titanic, not Olympian : a heaver of rocks, not a shaper. But if he did no...speculated on the impression produced by his costume de BohSme, which he seems to have adopted for good — an innocent eccentricity at any rate. My thanks... | |
 | George Meredith - 1912 - 344 pages
...his time — and after the British fashion of not coming near perfection ; Titanic, not Olympian : a heaver of rocks, not a shaper. But if he did no...with a phrase. We have had Mr. Louis Stevenson in our Vallej7, staying with his wife and father and mother at the inn. He dined with me several evenings,... | |
 | George Meredith - 1913 - 344 pages
...his time — and after the British fashion of not coming near perfection ; Titanic, not Olympian : a heaver of rocks, not a shaper. But if he did no...speculated on the impression produced by his costume de BohSme, which he seems to have adopted for good — an innocent eccentricity at any rate. My thanks... | |
 | 1913 - 816 pages
...of his time — and after the British fashion of not coming near perfection; Titanic, not Olympian; a heaver of rocks, not a shaper. But if he did no...pictures and reach to the inmost of men with a phrase. Even at the risk of repeating Homer's Catalogue of Ships — which we understand is never read —... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - 1914 - 510 pages
...his time — and after the British fashion of not coming near perfection : Titanic, not Olympian : a heaver of rocks, not a shaper. But if he did no...perfect work, he had lightning's power to strike out marvelous pictures and reach to the inmost of men with a phrase." THE DOCTRINE OF THE UNCONSCIOUS Could... | |
 | Frank Harris - 1915 - 388 pages
...his time — and after the British fashion of not coming near perfection ; Titanic, not Olympian ; a heaver of rocks, not a shaper. But if he did no...pictures and reach to the inmost of men with a phrase. . . . In reading Carlyle, bear in mind that he is a humorist. The insolence offensive to you is part... | |
 | Byron Johnson Rees - 1919 - 586 pages
...of his time — and after the British fashion of not coming near perfection; Titanic, not Olympian: a heaver of rocks, not a shaper. But if he did no perfect work, he had Sghtning's power to strike out marvellous pictures and reach to the inmost of men with a phrase. We... | |
 | Frederick William Roe - 1921 - 356 pages
...and dirt, amid their furnaces, pits, and rolling mills." With incomparable literary skill, with the "lightning's power to strike out marvellous pictures and reach to the inmost of men with a phrase," as George Meredith pithily says, Carlyle thus described the continents of squalid dwellings in the... | |
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