 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1824 - 366 lehte
...greatness. These soft approaches, this smirking and bowing, this assenting, wheedling, flattering, this whisking agility, this wagging of the tail, this...emptiness, this legal knavery, this ineptitude and insipidity—how can they be expressed by a single man ? There ought to be at least a dozen of these... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1840 - 350 lehte
...greatness. These soft approaches, this smirking and bowing, this assenting, wheedling, flattering, this whisking agility, this wagging of the tail, this...this legal knavery, this ineptitude and insipidity, — how can they be expressed by a single man ? There ought to be at least a dozen of these people,... | |
 | 1855 - 712 lehte
...Shakspere's greatness. These soft approaches, this smirking and bowing, this assenting, wheedling, nattering, this whisking agility, this wagging of the tail, this allness and emptiness, this ineptitude and insipidity — how can they be expressed by a single man ? There ought to be at least... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1856 - 360 lehte
...greatness. These soft approaches, this smirking and bowing, this assenting, wheedling, flattering, this whisking agility, this wagging of the tail, this allness and emptiness, this ineptitnde and insipidity — how can they be expressed by a single man ? There ought to be at least... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1864 - 352 lehte
...greatness. These soft approaches, this smirking and bowing, this assenting, wheedling, flattering, this whisking agility, this wagging of the tail, this...this legal knavery, this ineptitude and insipidity, — how can they be expressed by a single man? There ought to be at least a dozen of these people,... | |
 | 1871 - 384 lehte
...greatness. These soft approaches, this smirking and bowing, this assenting, wheedling, flattering, this whisking agility, this wagging of the tail, this...emptiness, this legal knavery, this ineptitude and insipidity,—how can they be expressed by a single man ? There ought to be at least a dozen of these... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1874 - 296 lehte
...greatness. These soft approaches, this smirking and bowing, this assenting, wheedling, flattering, this whisking agility, this wagging of the tail, this...this legal knavery, this ineptitude and insipidity, — how can they be expressed "jy a single man ? There ought to be at least a dozen of these people,... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1875 - 448 lehte
...greatness. These soft approaches, this smirking and bowing, this assenting, wheedling, flattering, this whisking agility, this wagging of the tail, this...this legal knavery, this ineptitude and insipidity, how can they be expressed by a single man ? There ought to be at least a dozen of these people if they... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1877 - 512 lehte
...express all these soft approaches, this smirking and bowing, this assenting, wheedling, flattering, this whisking agility, this wagging of the tail, this...this legal knavery, this ineptitude and insipidity ? '* Goethe was rather for having half of a dozen of these people, if they could be had; for it is... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1877 - 440 lehte
...greatness. This lightly stepping approach, this smirking and bowing, this assenting, wheedling, flattering, this whisking agility, this wagging of the tail, this...this legal knavery, this ineptitude and insipidity, — how can they be expressed by a single man ? There ought to be a dozen of these people, if they... | |
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... can they be expressed by a single man ? There ought to be at least a dozen of these people, if they could be had : for it is only in society that they are anything; they are society itself; and Shakspeare showed no little wisdom and discernment in... 
