cobwebberies

Sweep away thy constitutional, sentimental and other cobwebberies; look eye to eye, if thou still have any eye, in the face of this big burly William Bastard: thou wilt see a fellow of most flashing discernment, of most strong lionheart; -- in whom, as it were, within a frame of oak and iron, the gods have planted the soul of 'a man of genius! '

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms, and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a William the Conqueror, a Tancred of Hauteville or such like, -- do you not discern veritably some rude outline of a true God-made King; whom not the Champion of England cased in tin, but all Nature and the Universe were calling to the throne?

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

Sweep away thy constitutional, sentimental and other cobwebberies; look eye to eye, if thou still have any eye, in the face of this big burly William Bastard: thou wilt see a fellow of most flashing discernment, of most strong lion-heart; -- in whom, as it were, within a frame of oak and iron, the gods have planted the soul of 'a man of genius '!

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

When, across the hundredfold poor scepticisms, trivialisms, and constitutional cobwebberies of Dryasdust, you catch any glimpse of a

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838