 He now became troubled with the passion for reforming the world* He built many castles in the air, and peopled them with secret tribunals, and bands of illuminati, who were always the imaginary instruments of his projected regeneration of the human species.  Headlong Hall: And, Nightmare Abbey - Side 98af Thomas Love Peacock - 1845 - 172 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1818 - 238 sider
...labour of studying them by their mystical jargon and necromantic imagery. In the congenial solitude of Nightmare Abbey, the distempered ideas of metaphysical...had ample time and space to germinate into a fertile harvest of chimseras, which rapidly shot up into vigorous and abundant vegetation. He now became troubled... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1845 - 194 sider
...labour of studying them by their mystical jargon and necromantic imagery. In the congenial solitude of Nightmare Abbey, the distempered ideas of metaphysical...imaginary instruments of his projected regeneration of the human species. As he intended to institute a perfect republic, he invested himself with absolute sovereignty... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1856 - 182 sider
...labour of studying them by their mystical jargon and necromantic imagery. In the congenial solitude of Nightmare Abbey, the distempered ideas of metaphysical...rapidly shot up into vigorous and abundant vegetation. • the itfirlrl* He built many castles in the air, and peopled them with secret tribunals, and bands... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 450 sider
...labour of studying them by their mystical jargon and necromantic imagery. In the congenial solitude of Nightmare Abbey, the distempered ideas of metaphysical...imaginary instruments of his projected regeneration of the human species. As he intended to institute a perfect republic, he invested himself with absolute sovereignty... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 462 sider
...labour of studying them by their mystical jargon and necromantic imagery. In the congenial solitude of Nightmare Abbey, the distempered ideas of metaphysical...now became troubled with the passion for reforming tlit world.* Ho built many castles in the air, and peopled them with secret tribunals, and bands of... | |
 | 1884 - 946 sider
...describes how young Scythrop — a fantastic counterfeit of the youthful Shelley — became troubled with a passion for reforming the world : — " He built many...imaginary instruments of his projected regeneration of the human species. As he intended to institute a perfect republic, he invested himself with absolute sovereignty... | |
 | Shelley Society - 1886 - 94 sider
...describes how young Scythrop—a fantastic counterfeit of the youthful Shelley—became troubled with a passion for reforming the world :— " He built many...imaginary instruments of his projected regeneration of the human species. As he intended to institute a perfect republic, he invested himself with absolute sovereignty... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edward Dowden - 1886 - 82 sider
...describes how young Scythrop—a fantastic counterfeit of the youthful Shelley—became troubled with a passion for reforming the world :— " He built many...imaginary instruments of his projected regeneration of the human species. As he intended to institute a perfect republic, he invested himself with absolute sovereignty... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1891 - 148 sider
...labour of studying them by their mystical jargon and necromantic imagery. In the congenial solitude of Nightmare Abbey, the distempered ideas of metaphysical...imaginary instruments of his projected regeneration of the human species. As he intended to institute a perfect republic, he invested himself with absolute sovereignty... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1896 - 276 sider
...labour of studying them by their mystical jargon and necromantic imagery. In the congenial solitude of Nightmare Abbey, the distempered ideas of metaphysical...became troubled with the passion for reforming the world.1 He built many castles in the air, and peopled 1 See Forsyth's Principles of Moral Science.... | |
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