 He sings, rather than talks. He pours upon you a kind of satirical, heroical, critical poem, with regular cadences, and generally catching up, near the beginning, some singular epithet, which serves as a refrain when his song is full, or with which, as...  Pen Pictures of Modern Authors - Page 8edited by - 1882 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 816 pages
...like him heartily, ^Xe to see him the powerful smith, TO Siegfried, melting all the old iron in \flS furnace till it glows to a sunset red, and burns you,...critical poem, with regular cadences, and generally, near the beginning, hits upon some singular epithet, which serves as a refrain when his song is full,... | |
 | Elizabeth Deering Hanscom - American letters - 1910 - 444 pages
...seems, to me. quite isolated. — lonely as the desert. — yet never was a man more fitted to pri/ea man. could' he find one to match his mood. He finds...than talks. He pours upon you a kind of satirical, heroica!, critical povm. with regular cadences, and generally, near the beginning hits upon some singular... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - Literature - 1917 - 816 pages
...conqueror; it is his nature, and the untamable impulse that has given him power to crush the dragons. He sings rather than talks. He pours upon you a kind...epithet which serves as a refrain when his song is full, or with which, as with a knitting-needle, he catches up the stitches, if he has chanced now and then... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - Travel - 1991 - 366 pages
...if you senselessly go too near. He seemed to me quite isolated, lonely as the desert, yet never was man more fitted to prize a man, could he find one...epithet, which serves as a refrain when his song is full, or with which as with a knitting needle he catches up the stitches if he has chanced now and then to... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny - Biography & Autobiography - 1976 - 628 pages
...if you senselessly go too near. He seemed to me quite isolated, lonely as the desert, yet never was man more fitted to prize a man, could he find one...epithet, which serves as a refrain when his song is full, or with which as with a knitting needle he catches up the stitches if he has chanced now and then to... | |
 | Benjamin Nicholas Martin - American literature - 1875 - 542 pages
...desert; yet never was man more fitted to prize a man, could he find one to match his mood. He finds such, but only in the past. He sings rather than talks....epithet, which serves as a refrain when his song is full, or with which as with a knitting-needle he catches up the stitches, if he has chanced now and then... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - Anthologies - 1901 - 434 pages
...conqueror ; it is his nature, and the untamable impulse that has given him power to crush the dragons. He sings rather than talks. He pours upon you a kind...epithet which serves as a refrain when his song is full, or with which, as with a knitting-needle, he catches up the stitches, if he lias chanced now and then... | |
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