| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1864 - 784 Seiten
...of machinery, which, like the Kolian harp, Sassivc, takes the impression of the passing accii nt I { & ع w = X{ q F q > " }n d 0:c uN" ` mB-Z|OO CM 95 — Vol. ii. pp. 195-19?. To this we may add the following passage, as a part, indeed, of the same... | |
| John Wilson - 1865 - 444 Seiten
...of machinery, which like the ^Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident 1 Or do these workings argue something within us above...awful and important realities —a God that made all things—man's immaterial and immortal nature—and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave.... | |
| Samuel Woolcock Christophers - 1867 - 512 Seiten
...my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the -<3Bolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave." It would be pleasant indeed ever to have the poet before us, warm... | |
| Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1868 - 688 Seiten
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the /Eolian harp, passive takes the impression of the passing...immaterial and immortal nature — and a world of weal or wo beyond death and the gruve ! — RB No. CLXIX. TO DR. MOORE. SIR, ELLISLAND, tfh January, 1789.... | |
| 1868 - 510 Seiten
...friend, to what can this be owing ? Are wo a piece of machinery which, like the /Eolian harp, passively takes the impression of the passing accident? Or do...all things, man's immaterial and immortal nature, find a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave." .- ^gj Poor Burns, his mind was ill at rest... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 434 Seiten
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing 1 Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the ^Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or wo beyond death and the grave.' Force and fineness of understanding are often spoken of as something... | |
| Joseph Torrey - 1874 - 316 Seiten
...Tell me, my friend, to what can this be owing ? ' Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the ^Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave." x There is this distinction, then, between the kind of interest... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1873 - 582 Seiten
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the JEolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...workings argue something within us above the trodden clodl I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities : a God that made... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 Seiten
...my dear friend, to what can this be owing? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the ЖоНап — consciousness (Only overhead or woe beyond death and the grave. In another of his letters we have this striking autobiographical... | |
| Peter Freeland Aiken - 1876 - 468 Seiten
...to what can " this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, " like the JSolian harp, passively takes the impression " of the passing accident ? Or...of those awful " and important realities — a God who made all things — " man's immaterial and immortal nature — and a world " of weal or woe bevond... | |
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