| Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pages
...up there, stern and grim, in the North Ocean ; with its snow jokuls, roaring geysers, sulphur-pools and horrid volcanic chasms, like the waste chaotic battle-field of Frost and Fire ; — where of all places we least looked for Literature or written memorials, the record of these... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - Hero worship - 1841 - 408 pages
...beauty in summer-time ; towering up there, stern and grim, in the North Ocean ; with its snow-jokuls, roaring geysers, sulphur pools and horrid volcanic...the waste chaotic battle-field of Frost and Fire; — where of all places we least looked for Literature or written memorials, the record of these things... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - Hero worship - 1842 - 414 pages
...up there, stern and grim, in the North Ocean ; with its snow-jokuls, roaring geysers, sulphur-pools and horrid volcanic chasms, like the waste chaotic battle-field of Frost and Fire; — where of all places we least looked for Literature or written memorials, the record of these things... | |
| 1844 - 848 pages
...gleaming beauty in summer-time, towers up there stern and grim in the North Ocean ; with its snow-jokuli, roaring geysers, sulphur pools, and horrid volcanic chasms, like the waste chaotic battle-field of Fro?! and Fire." Yet this was the birth-place of Northern poetry and literature ; the chosen retreat... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1845 - 886 pages
...beauty in summer-time ; towering up there, stern and grim, in the North Ocean ; with its snowjökuls, roaring geysers, sulphur pools, and horrid volcanic...the waste, chaotic battle-field of Frost and Fire, — where, of all places, we least looked for literature or written memorials, the record of these... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1884 - 436 pages
...tempests, yet with a wild, gleaming beauty in summer time ; towering up there, stern and grim, in the North ocean, with its snow Jokuls, roaring Geysers, sulphur pools and horrid volcanic caverns ; like the waste chaotic battlefield of frost and fire ; where, of all places, we least looked... | |
| United States - 1849 - 596 pages
...black tempests, yet with a wild gleaming beauty in summer-time ; towering up there stern and grira in the Northern Ocean ; with its snow Jokuls, roaring...fitted to accomplish some special work. The English are great as a practical and commercial people. Bonaparte called them a nation of shop-keepers; he afterwards... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - Heroes - 1849 - 260 pages
...up there, stern and grim, in the North Ocean; with its snow-jokuls, roaring geysers, sulphur-pools and horrid volcanic chasms, like the waste chaotic battle-field of Frost and Fire ;.—where of all places we least looked for Literature or written memorials, the record of these things... | |
| Louis Raymond Véricour - Christian civilization - 1850 - 556 pages
...beauty in summer-time ; towering up there, stern and grim, in the North Ocean ; with its snowiokuls, roaring geysers, sulphur pools, and horrid volcanic...like the waste chaotic battle-field of Frost and Fire ; — where of all places we least looked for literature or written memorials, the record of these... | |
| Louis Raymond Véricour - Christian civilization - 1850 - 530 pages
...beauty in summer-time; towering up there, stern and grim, in the North Ocean; with its snowjokuls, roaring geysers, sulphur pools, and horrid volcanic...chasms, like the waste chaotic battle-field of Frost and Fire;—where of all places we least looked for literature or written memorials, the record of these... | |
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