 What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man! To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion. To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 273edited by - 1833Full view - About this book
 | John Bartlett, Nathan Haskell Dole - Quotations - 1914 - 1514 pages
..."«•"as little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little. On Horace Walpole. 1833. What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkAble...! — To be regarded in his own age as a classic, »Dd in ours as a companion ! To receive from his can't e-mporaries that full homage which men of genius... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English Prose Literature - 1917 - 716 pages
...the "What then, sir?" and the "No, sir!" and the "You don't see your way through the question, sir!" What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable...genius have in general received only from posterity 1 To be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries! That kind... | |
 | 1925 - 144 pages
...appreciated only after they leave this life. Not so with HENRY CABOT LODGE. In the words of Macaulay : What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable...his own age as a classic and in ours as a companion I To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received... | |
 | James James Lowry Clifford, Donald Johnson Greene - 1970 - 704 pages
...(10/6:28). "What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!" wrote Macaulay of Johnson. "To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion." And it was Macaulay's own brilliant emphasis on Johnson's idiosyncrasies rather than his ideas which... | |
 | Helen Deutsch, Felicity Nussbaum - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 348 pages
...the "What then, sir?" and the "No, sir;" and the "You don't see your way through the question, sir!" What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable...contemporaries that full homage which men of genius in general received only from posterity! To be more intimately known to posterity than other men are... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 337 pages
...the "What then, sir?" and the "No, sir;" and the "You don't see your way through the question, sir!" What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable...contemporaries that full homage which men of genius in general received only from posterity! To be more intimately known to posterity than other men are... | |
 | 1916 - 350 pages
...quotations weaken an article, the writer may be excused for this one long one. It runs as follows: "What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable...companion ! To receive from his contemporaries that homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity! To be more intimately known... | |
 | William Swinton - 1896 - 684 pages
...What then, sir?" and the "No, sir!" and the "You don't see your way through the question, sir !" 8. What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable...his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion I To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1865 - 868 pages
...the dirty hands ; the nails bitten and pared to the quick ; that remarkable man, whose fate it was to be regarded, in his own age, as a classic, and in ours, as a companion." i. M. s. §utlbtrs. Though man to fullness raises his estate, And thinks his greatness proof 'gainst... | |
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