 In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.  President's Address - Seite 1von Thomas Nadauld Brushfield - 1893 - 134 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 Seiten
...of the work of a Hero ; Books, written words, are still miraculous Runes, the latest form ! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate...substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. Mighty fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals, vast cities, high-domed, many-engined, — they are... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1841 - 408 Seiten
...still very literally lives ; can be called up again into life. No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been : it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men. Do not Books... | |
 | 1843 - 592 Seiten
...with truth. He adds, " In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voiee of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. Mighty fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals, vast cities, highdomed, many-engined, — they are... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1849 - 260 Seiten
...of the work of a Hero ; Books, written words, are still miraculous Runes, the latest form! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate...substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. Mighty fl«ets and armies, harbours and arsenals, vast cities, high-domed, many-engined,—they are... | |
 | William R. Lyth - 1854 - 132 Seiten
...the same subject by the very thoughtful but eccentric authorof " Heroes — Hero Worship" " In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate...audible voice of the Past when the body and material suhstance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. Mighty fleets and aimies, harbours aud arsenals,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 412 Seiten
...of the work of a Hero ; Books, written words, are still miraculous Runes, the latest form ! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate...substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. Mighty fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals, vast cities, high-domed, manyengined, — they are... | |
 | Benjamin John Wallace, Albert Barnes - 1858 - 720 Seiten
...sentiments, and speech, of those regal intellects that are born to rule mankind. " In books," says Carlyle, "lies the soul of the whole past time: the articulate,...substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream." Books have proved themselves to be monuments more enduring than brass or marble. The Parthenon is in... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 384 Seiten
...Chartism, p. 108. ^r LITERATURE AND JOURNALISM. LITEEATUEE AND JOUENALISM. THE VOICE OF THE PAST. In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate...substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. Mighty fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals, vast cities, high domed, many engined, — they are... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 328 Seiten
...of the work of a Hero ; Books, written words, are still miraculous Runes, the latest form ! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate...substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. Mighty fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals, vast cities, high -domed, many-engined, — they are... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1871 - 408 Seiten
...of the work of a Hero ; Books, written words, are still miraculous Runes, the latest form ! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate...substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. Mighty fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals, vast cities, high-domed, manyengined, — they are... | |
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