 I have grown to believe that an old man, seated in his arm-chair, waiting patiently, with his lamp beside him; giving unconscious ear to all the eternal laws that reign about his house, interpreting, without comprehending, the silence of doors and windows...  Iconoclasts, a Book of Dramatists: Ibsen, Strindberg, Becque, Hauptmann ... - Page 377by James Huneker - 1905 - 430 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henrik Ibsen - 1892 - 258 pages
...patiently with his lamp beside him, giving unconscious ear to all the eternal laws that reign about his house, interpreting, without comprehending, the silence of doors and windows and the quivering voice of the light, submitting with bent head to the presence of his soul and his destiny, ... I have grown... | |
 | William Archer - 1898 - 496 pages
...his lamp beside him, giving unconscious ear to all the eternal laws that reign about the house . . . submitting with bent head to the presence of his soul and his destiny . . . does yet live, in reality, a deeper, more human, and more universal life than the lover who strangles... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 464 pages
...patiently, with his lamp beside him; giving unconscious ear to all the eternal laws that reign about his house; interpreting, without comprehending, the silence of doors and windows and the quivering voice of the light; submitting with bent head to the presence of his soul and his destiny, — an old man, who... | |
 | Maurice Maeterlinck - 1897 - 252 pages
...patiently, with his lamp beside him; giving unconscious ear to all the eternal laws that reign about his house, interpreting, without comprehending, the silence of doors and windows and the quivering voice of the light, submitting with bent head to the presence of his soul and his destiny—an old man, who... | |
 | William Archer - 1898 - 500 pages
...his lamp beside him, giving unconscious ear to all the eternal laws that reign about the house . . . submitting with bent head to the presence of his soul and his destiny . . . does yet live, in reality, a deeper, more human, and more universal life than the lover who strangles... | |
 | Maurice Maeterlinck - 1899 - 252 pages
...interpreting, without comprehending, the silence of doors and windows and the quivering voice of the light, submitting with bent head to the presence of...an old man, who conceives not that all the powers ire mingling and keeping vigil in his room, who suspects not that the very sun itself is supporting... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 446 pages
...patiently, with his lamp beside him ; giving unconscious ear to all the eternal laws that reign about his house ; interpreting, without comprehending, the silence of doors and windows and the quivering voice of the light ; submitting with bent head to the presence of his soul and his destiny, — an old man,... | |
 | Maurice Maeterlinck - 1903 - 300 pages
...interpreting, without comprehending, the silence of doors and windows and the quivering voice of the light, submitting with bent head to the presence of...an old man, who conceives not that all the powers «47 of this world, like so many heedful servants, are mingling and keeping vigil in his room, who... | |
 | Maurice Maeterlinck - 1903 - 298 pages
...patiently, with his lamp beside him; giving unconscious ear to all the eternal laws that reign about his house, interpreting, without comprehending, the silence of doors and windows and the quivering voice of the light, submitting with bent head to the presence of his soul and his destiny—an old man, who... | |
 | Edward Smith Parsons - 1904 - 754 pages
...waiting quietly beside his lamp, listening unconsciously to all the eternal laws that reign about his house, interpreting, without comprehending, the silence of doors and windows and the faint voice of light, submitting with slightly bowed head to the presence of his soul and of destiny,... | |
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