 | 1818 - 764 Seiten
...read no books that other people read : his scorn is as misplaced and extravagant as his admiration ; opinions that seem to tally with his own wild ravings are holy nnd inspired; and, unless agreeable to his creed, the wisdom of ages is folly ; and wits, whom the... | |
 | 1818 - 782 Seiten
...read no books that other people read ; his scorn is as misplaced and extravagant as his admiration ; opinions that seem to tally with his own wild ravings...agreeable to his creed, the wisdom of ages is folly ; and wits, whom the world worship, dwarfed when they approach his venerable side. His admiration of... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - 1883 - 302 Seiten
...read no books that other people read ; his scorn is as misplaced and extravagant as his admiration ; opinions that seem to tally with his own wild ravings...agreeable to his creed, the wisdom of ages is folly ; and wits, whom the world worship, are dwarfed when they approach his venerable side. His admiration... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1914 - 552 Seiten
...read no books that other people read ; his scorn is as misplaced and extravagant as his admiration ; opinions that seem to tally with his own wild ravings...agreeable to his creed, the wisdom of ages is folly ; and wits, whom the world worship, dwarfed when they approach his venerable side. His admiration of... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 716 Seiten
...read no books that other people read; his scorn is as misplaced and extravagant as his admiration; opinions that seem to tally with his own wild ravings...agreeable to his creed, the wisdom of ages is folly, and wits whom the world worship dwarfed when they approach his venerable side. His admiration of nature... | |
 | Albert Mordell - 1926 - 314 Seiten
...read no books that other people read; his scorn is as misplaced and extravagant as his admiration; opinions that seem to tally with his own wild ravings...agreeable to his creed, the wisdom of ages is folly; and wits, whom the world worship, dwarfed when they approach his venerable side. His admiration of... | |
 | John Wain - 1953 - 252 Seiten
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 | John Wain - 1953 - 248 Seiten
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... concerning himself ; no sound is so sweet to him as that of his own voice ; the ground is hallowed on which his footsteps tread ; and there seems to him something more than human in his very shadow. He will read no books that other people read ; his... 
