 Withal it is a silent pain too, a silent scornful one : the lip is curled in a kind of godlike disdain of the thing that is eating out his heart, — as if it were withal a mean insignificant thing, as if he whom it had power to torture and strangle were...  Self Culture - Page 681899Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...ethereal soul looking-out so stern, implacable, grim-trenchant, as from imprisonment of thick-ribbed ice ! Withal it is a silent pain too, a silent scornful...in a kind of godlike disdain of the thing that is eating-out his heart, — as if it were withal a mean insignificant thing, as if he whom it had power... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Hero worship - 1841 - 408 pages
...ethereal soul looking out so stern, implacable, grim-trenchant, as from imprisonment of thick-ribbed ice ! Withal it is a silent pain too, a silent scornful...to torture and strangle were greater than it. The face of one wholly in protest, and life-long unsurrendering battle, against the world. Affection all... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Hero worship - 1842 - 414 pages
...ethereal soul looking out so stern, implacable, grim-trenchant, as from imprisonment of thick-ribbed ice ! Withal it is a silent pain too, a silent scornful...heart, — as if it were withal a mean insignificant tiling, as if he whom it had power to torture and strangle were greater than it. The face of one wholly... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1849 - 260 pages
...ethereal soul looking out so stern, implacable, grim-trenchant, as from imprisonment of thick-ribbed ice! Withal it is a silent pain too, a silent scornful...godlike disdain of the thing that is eating out his heart,—as if it were withal a mean insignificant thing, as if he whom it had power to torture and... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1858 - 412 pages
...ethereal soul looking-out so stern, implacable, grim-trenchant, as from imprisonment of thick-ribbed ice ! Withal it is a silent pain too, a silent scornful...in a kind of godlike disdain, of the thing that is eating-out his heart, — as if it were withal a mean insignificant thing, as if he whom it had power... | |
 | Mrs. Grey (Elizabeth Caroline) - English fiction - 186? - 220 pages
...sharp, isolated, hopeless pain ; a silent pain — silent and scornful. The lip curled, as it were, in a kind of god-like disdain of the thing that is eating out his heart ; as if he whom it had power to torture were greater than the cause." The eye, too, that dark earnest eye,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 428 pages
...ethereal soul looking out so stern, implacable, grim-trenchant, as from imprisonment of thick-ribbed ice ! Withal it is a silent pain too, a silent, scornful...to torture and strangle were greater than it. The face of one wholly in protest, and life -long, unsurrendering battle, against the world. Affection... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 264 pages
...etherial soul looking out so stern, implacable, grim-trenchant, as from imprisonment of thick-ribbed ice ! Withal it is a silent pain too, a silent, scornful...to torture and strangle were greater than it. The face of one wholly in protest, and life-long, unsurrendering battle, against the world. Affection all... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 432 pages
...ethereal soul looking out so stern, implacable, grim-trenchant, as from imprisonment of thick-ribbed ice ! Withal it is a silent pain too, a silent, scornful...to torture and strangle were greater than it. The face of one wholly in protest, and life -long, unsurrendering battle, against the world. Affection... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - Poetry - 1867 - 782 pages
...looking out so stern, implacable, grim-trenchant, as from imprisonment of thick-ribbed ice ! XVithal it is a silent pain too, a silent, scornful one :...to torture and strangle were greater than it. The face of one wholly in protest, and life-long, unsurrendering battle, against the world. Affection all... | |
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