 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1828 - 606 страници
...imagination, instead of exhausting itself in idle flights, lent aid to his judgment, and enabled him to form conclusions at which common minds could never have..." To his intellectual vision it was given to read the signs of the times, and to trace, in the conjectures and reveries of past ages, the indications... | |
 | 1828 - 496 страници
...imagination, instead of exhausting itself in idle flights, lent aid to his judgment, and enabled him to form conclusions at which common minds could never have...nay, which they could not perceive when pointed out." ** With all the visionary fervour of his imagination, its fondest dreams i" il short of the reality.... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 страници
...imagination, instead of exhausting itself in idle flights, lent aid to his judgment, and enabled him to form conclusions, at which common minds could never have...was given to read, in the signs of the times, and to trace, in the conjectures and reveries of past ages, the indications of an unknown world; as soothsayers... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - 312 страници
...imagination, instead of wasting itself in idle soarings, lent wings to his judgement, and 1O bore it away to conclusions at which common minds could never have..." To his intellectual vision it was given, to read m the signs of the times, and the reveries of past ages, the 20 plough a sea which had given rise to... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1838 - 316 страници
...imagination, instead of wasting itself in idle soarings, lent wings to his judgement, and 10 hore it away to conclusions at which common minds could never have..." To his intellectual vision it was given, to read m the signs of the times, and the reveries of past ages, the 15 indications of an unknown world, as... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 страници
...imagination, instead of wasting itself in idle soarings, lent wings to his judgement, and 10 bore it away to conclusions at which common minds could never have...was given, to read in the signs of the times, and the reveries of past ages, the 15 indications of an unknown world, as soothsayers were said to read... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 страници
...imagination, instead of wasting itself in idle soarings, lent wings to his judgment, and bore it away to conclusions at which common minds could never have...given, to read in the signs of the times, and in the reveries of past ages, the indications of an unknown world, as soothsayers were said to read predictions... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 320 страници
...imagination, instead of wasting itself in idle soarings, lent wings to his judgement, and 10 bore it away to conclusions at which common minds could never have...was given, to read in the signs of the times, and the reveries of past ages, the indi15 cations of an unknown world, as soothsayers were said to read... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 518 страници
...imagination, instead of exhausting itself in idle flights, lent aid to his judgment, and enabled him to form conclusions at which common minds could never have...out. To his intellectual vision it was given to read the signs of the times, and to trace, in the conjectures and reveries of past ages, the indications... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 510 страници
...imagination, instead of exhausting itself in idle flights, lent aid to his judgment, and enabled him to form conclusions at which common minds could never have...out. To his intellectual vision it was given to read the signs of the times, and to trace, in the conjectures and reveries of past ages, the indications... | |
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... reveries of past ages, the indications of an unknown world; as soothsayers were said to read predictions in the stars, and to foretell events from the visions of the night. " His soul," observes a Spanish writer, " was superior to the age in which... 
