"Norseman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... specifically Gothic is to be found mainly in the first series of "Poems and Ballads" (1866);[57] a volume which corresponds to Morris' first fruits, "The Defence of Guenevere." If Morris is prevailingly a Goth—a heathen Norseman or Saxon—Swinburne is, upon the whole, a Greek pagan. Rossetti and Morris inherit from Keats, but Swinburne much more from Shelley, whom he resembles in his Hellenic spirit; as well as in his lyric fervour, his shrill radicalism—political ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century • Henry A. Beers
... would have been piously enough made and the germ tenderly enough nursed? For a certain art of asking of Italy all she can give, you must doubtless either be a rare raffine or a rare genius, a sophisticated Norseman or just ...
— Italian Hours • Henry James
... kin he comes o'? Have not his forbears done for centuries the vera same way? Naething takes a Norseman frae his bed or his cup but some great deed o' danger or profit; but then wha can fight ...
— Scottish sketches • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... him, I was as much awe-stricken as if I had been gazing on Bunker Hill Monument, He was unquestionably the most majestic specimen of manhood that ever trod this continent. Carlyle called him "The Great Norseman," and said that his eyes were like great anthracite furnaces that needed blowing up. Coal heavers in London stopped to stare at him as he stalked by, and it is well authenticated that Sydney Smith said of him, "That man is a fraud; for it ...
— Recollections of a Long Life - An Autobiography • Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
... that he was likely to see more of the young Norseman. Helga was filled with amazement. On the verge of starting, she stopped her horse to ...
— The Thrall of Leif the Lucky • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz |
